[oe] Cannot compile glibc-initial for ARM

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Pawel Osmialowski <pawelo at dcclabs.tv> wrote:
> 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"
               ^^^^^^

The above setting will make it use OABI which is long outdated in OE
remove the above line and rebuild


> 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"

While that might work you better use eglibc since
thats maintained

> 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"

beaware compiling glibc with Os may not work but eglibc can be compiled
using -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
>
>
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