[oe] building module-init-tools-cross fails

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Sashan Govender <sashang at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying out openembedded but get this error:
>
> ERROR: function do_compile failed
> ERROR: log data follows
> (/home/sashan/code/openembedded/build/tmp/work/i486-oe-linux-gnu/module-init-tools-cross-3.2.2-r5/temp/log.do_compile.12217)
> | NOTE: make
> | gcc  -isystem/home/sashan/code/openembedded/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/include
> -O2 -g -Wunused -Wall -static
> -L/home/sashan/code/openembedded/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib
> -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/sashan/code/openembedded/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib
> -Wl,-rpath,/home/sashan/code/openembedded/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib
> -Wl,-O1 -o insmod.static insmod.o
> | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
> | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> | make: *** [insmod.static] Error 1
> | FATAL: oe_runmake failed
>
> This is my local.conf file:
>
> DL_DIR = "${HOME}/archives"
> BBFILES = ${OEBASE}/openembedded/recipes/*/*.bb
> BBMASK = ""
> PREFERRED_PROVIDERS = "virtual/qte:qte virtual/libqpe:libqpe-opie"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += " virtual/libsdl:libsdl-x11"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += " virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc-initial:gcc-cross-initial"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += "
> virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc-intermediate:gcc-cross-intermediate"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += " virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc:gcc-cross"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDERS += " virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}g++:gcc-cross"
> MACHINE = "x86"
> TARGET_OS = "linux"
> DISTRO = "minimal"
> IMAGE_FSTYPES = "jffs2 tar"
> BINCLUDELOGS = "yes"
>
> What am I missing?

its looking for libc.a on your build machine because you are linking
static version. Depending upon what distro you run on
your host you can install appropriate package. e.g on debian/ubuntu
libc6-dev provides it.

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