[oe] chromium detected as stripped

[Martin Jansa]

I think nodejs fails because of openssl-1.1 like most of the failures from
last report.
http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/150582/

it was building fine with gcc7 before openssl upgrade.

Regards,

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue 2017-08-15 @ 11:53:42 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa
> > <raphael.kubo.da.costa at intel.com> wrote:
> > > Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > >> what are main architectures targetted with crosswalk ? I think scope
> is
> > >> important, since meta-browser supports, almost all oe-core supported
> > >> architectures. including x86/arm/mips/ppc, any cross build patches are
> > >> required in anycase, but architecture patches will be additional if
> you
> > >> were only considering a subset of architectures.
>
> I was wondering the same thing myself :-) This recipe lists "armv7a" in
> COMPATIBLE_MACHINE but the (32-bit version of) raspberrypi3, for
> example, is armv7ve. Therefore I get:
>
>         ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'chromium'
>         chromium was skipped: incompatible with machine raspberrypi3 (not
> in COMPATIBLE_MACHINE)
>
> > > There's nothing Crosswalk-related in my Chromium recipe; it's in
> > > meta-crosswalk simply due to a historical accident and the fact that I
> > > haven't found a proper home for it so far.
>
> Okay, good to know.
>
> > > With that said, I've tested my builds with x86, x86-64, ARMv7 (IIRC
> > > Chromium doesn't support earlier ARM processors) and aarch64.
>
> Can you provide a list of "MACHINE = ..." that were used?
>
> > I think the update stopper for chromium on meta browser is the new
> > build system (don't remember the name).
>
> Maybe you're referring to "gn"? If so, it's not a show-stopper. The source
> tarballs for chromium now include working sources for gn that can be built
> prior to the configure step.
>
> gn is a "makefile generator" much like the autotools. It's not the build
> system itself. However, instead of generating makefiles for make (as the
> autotools does), gn generates ninja files for ninja (which is the build
> system, and remains unchanged from earlier versions of chromium).
>
> > To take this step and have a
> > more recent version of chromium in meta-browser would be really great!
>
> The problem I was having was in trying to force the build system to use the
> toolchain I wanted it to use. The Igalia people solved this problem by
> tricking the build system to think it was building for CrOS, and then
> redefining the toolchain for CrOS to use the toolchain generated by OE.
> This
> worked for x86_64 (minnowboard) but would fail for the raspberrypi3 with
> "illegal instruction". So somewhere in the build, the specified toolchain
> was
> being ignored and the host's toolchain was being used instead.
>
> I'd be happy to work on trying to integrate Raphael's excellent work into
> meta-browser. However, it depends on nodejs, and nodejs is currently
> failing
> to build (Martin's "State of Bitbake World" just exploded in the last
> iteration). I'm looking into that now, somewhat. node hasn't been happy
> since
> the switch to gcc7.
>
> There are (now) a number of distros that make a distribution for the
> raspberrypi, many of which include chromium. It would be great if it were
> easy/possible to find the scripts/steps/setup they're using for comparative
> reasons:
>         - raspbian
>         - suse
>         - fedora
>         - arch
>         - (others?)
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