[oe] Baking coreutils-native-7.2-r0 fails

[Koen Kooi]

On 16-07-09 14:10, Sledz, Steffen wrote:
> I've an interesting problem baking coreutils-native-7.2-r0 (org.openembedded.dev branch with Angstrom distro and different machines, checked e.g. with beagleboard, x86, and hipox) on some hosts:
>
> NOTE: Running task 28 of 69 (ID: 7, /home/DRESEARCH/sledz/work/openembedded/recipes/coreutils/coreutils-native_7.2.bb, do_compile)
> ERROR: function do_compile failed
> ERROR: log data follows (/home/DRESEARCH/sledz/oe/tmp.3/work/i686-linux/coreutils-native-7.2-r0/temp/log.do_compile.757)
> | NOTE: make
> | make: GNUmakefile: Too many levels of symbolic links
> | make: stat: GNUmakefile: Too many levels of symbolic links
> | make: *** No rule to make target `GNUmakefile'.  Stop.
> | FATAL: oe_runmake failed
>
> I've tried building on two different hosts: on one of them (mobil-400-300) everything works well, on the other (fsc-480-012-88) the mentioned problem occurs (logs for both are attached). Both are running openSUSE 11.1 (same patch level), same bitbake version, same OE release (last commit is c0b076183453b890a5baaf5bbd2d53061e5ecc84). I started with an empty sources dir and tmp.3 was deleted before too.
>
> I'm totally confused. What's wrong here?

Sounds like your builddir is either on nfs or contains a symlink.

regards,

Koen