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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Khem Raj wrote:

> 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.

  if you're running fedora, you need to separately install the
"glibc-static" package.

rday
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