[oe] Cannot compile glibc-initial for ARM

[Pawel Osmialowski]

I'm trying to build Angstrom-derived distro for my handheld with
customized set of software. It will be held in few-GB CF card, so I can
use full-blown glibc for it.

I've prepared following distro configuration file:

# file-native version compatible with rpm tools:
PREFERRED_VERSION_file-native = "4.18"
DISTRO_NAME = "customized"
DISTRO_TYPE = "release"
DISTRO_VERSION = "0.1"
TOOLCHAIN_TYPE = "internal"
TOOLCHAIN_BRAND = ""
IMAGE_LINGUAS = "en-us"
IMAGE_FSTYPE = "tar.gz"
IMAGE_FSTYPES = "tar.gz"
IMAGE_PKGTYPE = "rpm"
IMAGE_PKGTYPES = "rpm"
PREFERRED_PKG_FORMAT = "rpm"
ANGSTROM_PKG_FORMAT = "rpm"
TARGET_OS = "linux"
ANGSTROM_FEED_CONFIGS = "angstrom-feed-configs"
DISTRO_FEED_CONFIGS = "${ANGSTROM_FEED_CONFIGS}"
LIBC = "glibc"
FEED_BASEPATH = "feeds/next/${ANGSTROM_PKG_FORMAT}/${LIBC}/"
GLIBC_GENERATE_LOCALES = "en_US.UTF-8"
ANGSTROMLIBC = "glibc"
KERNEL = "kernel26"
MACHINE_KERNEL_VERSION = "2.6"
PCMCIA_MANAGER = "pcmciautils"
LINUX_LIBC_HEADERS_VERSION = "2.6.37"
PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers = "${LINUX_LIBC_HEADERS_VERSION}"
PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers-native =
"${LINUX_LIBC_HEADERS_VERSION}"
require conf/distro/include/glibc-internal.inc
require conf/distro/include/toolchain-${TOOLCHAIN_TYPE}.inc
require conf/distro/include/arm-thumb.inc
require conf/distro/include/angstrom.inc
require conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain.inc
DISTRO_CHECK := "${@bb.data.getVar('DISTRO_VERSION',d,1) or
bb.fatal('Remove this line or set a dummy DISTRO_VERSION")
XSERVER = "xserver-xorg xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard
xf86-input-mouse xf86-video-fbdev"
INHERIT += "sanity"
INHERIT += "devshell"
USE_NLS = "yes"
USE_LDCONFIG = "0"
FULL_OPTIMIZATION = "-Os"
BUILD_OPTIMIZATION = "-Os"

DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "\
    angstrom-version \
    ${ANGSTROM_FEED_CONFIGS} \
    util-linux-ng-mount util-linux-ng-umount \
    angstrom-libc-fixup-hack \
"

DISTRO_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += " \
    kernel-module-vfat \
    kernel-module-ext2 \
    kernel-module-ext3 \
    kernel-module-af-packet \
    avahi-daemon \
    avahi-autoipd \
    openssh-sftp-server \
"

As I see in work directory, following versions of critical packages were
picked:

binutils-cross-2.21.1a-r14.3
busybox-1.18.5-r43.0
gcc-cross-4.5-r38.1+svnr170880
gcc-cross-initial-4.5-r38.1+svnr170880
gcc-cross-intermediate-4.5-r38.1+svnr170880
glibc-2.10.1-r37.1
glibc-initial-2.10.1-r37.1
linux-libc-headers-2.6.37-r0

Unfortunately, it stopped at glibc-initial confgure script:

| running configure fragment for ports/sysdeps/arm/elf
| checking for ARM TLS support... yes
| running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/pthread
| configure: error: working compiler support for visibility attribute is
required
NOTE: package glibc-initial-2.10.1-r37.1: task do_configure: Failed

Looking at config.log file produced by this configure script, I've found
that it contains a lot of errors like this (although I doubt this is the
reason for the whole problem):

conftest.c:9:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

I've checked that stdio.h is not present anywhere in tmp/sysroots (no
glibc yet...)

the final one:

configure:8362: arm-oe-linux-gcc -march=armv4 -mtune=strongarm
-mthumb-interwork -mno-thumb
--sysroot=/home/pawelo/h3660/openembedded/h3660/tmp/sysroots/arm-oabi-oe-linux
-c -g -O2 -I
/home/pawelo/h3660/openembedded/h3660/tmp/sysroots/arm-oabi-oe-linux/usr/include
conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:1:0: warning: target CPU does not support interworking
conftest.c:21:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
configure:8369: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
...
| }
configure:8586: result: 0
configure:8618: result: running configure fragment for ports/sysdeps/arm/elf
configure:7: checking for ARM TLS support
configure:24: arm-oe-linux-gcc -march=armv4 -mtune=strongarm
-mthumb-interwork -mno-thumb
--sysroot=/home/pawelo/h3660/openembedded/h3660/tmp/sysroots/arm-oabi-oe-linux
-c -g -O2 conf
test.s 1>&5
configure:27: $? = 0
configure:35: result: yes
configure:8618: result: running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/pthread
configure:11: error: working compiler support for visibility attribute
is required

I've tried with eglibc too, unfortunately, with the same result. Can you
point me, what am I doing wrong?

Best regards,
Paul