[oe] trouble building gcc-cross-initial first time

[Graham Gower]

On 5 October 2010 08:53, Graham Gower <graham.gower at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 October 2010 19:43, Jan Paesmans <jan.paesmans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> When building an image for one of my devices for the first time,
>> bitbake always seems to have a problem with building
>> gcc-cross-initial. It has the following error:
>>
>> | In file included from
>> /home/jan/src/prodata_openembedded/build/tmp/armv5te/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/gcc-cross-initial-4.3.3-r13.1/gcc-4.3.3/gcc/sparseset.c:22:
>> | /home/jan/src/prodata_openembedded/build/tmp/armv5te/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/gcc-cross-initial-4.3.3-r13.1/gcc-4.3.3/gcc/system.h:418:
>> error: conflicting types for 'strsignal'
>> | /usr/include/string.h:564: note: previous declaration of 'strsignal' was here
>>
>> However, when I restart the exact same bitbake command, the build
>> continues without a problem.
>>
>> I run massive parallel builds with 8 bitbake threads and make -j 8, so
>> I suspect that this has something to do with it. One of the tasks the
>> is started before is linux-libc-headers_2.6.31.bb, do_package_stage.
>> Could it be that this task hasn't finished yet while the
>> gcc-cross-initial needs it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jan
>>
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>
> I've seen this with gcc 4.3.3 also. I've not seen it with 4.4.4 or 4.5.
>
> -Graham
>

Fix here. http://lists.o-hand.com/poky/1917.html

A related bug with the relevant fix has made it in to gcc 4.3.5.
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38591

Is there interest in applying this to the gcc 4.3.3/4.3.4 recipes, or
would folks be happier with adding gcc 4.3.5? (And can the earlier
4.3.x recipes then be removed?)

-Graham