[oe-users] oe compiling under mips question

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 23:17 +0800, Viva wrote:
> I'm compiling opie-image using bitbake with target to mipsel. The host
> is a ubuntu edgy.
> 
> The oe build configuration is 
> OE Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION     = "1.6.3"
> OE_REVISION    = "2828d9465b54e6e0cd311dd4e9abd7f83eef4718"
> TARGET_ARCH    = "mipsel"
> TARGET_OS      = "linux"
> MACHINE        = "db1200"
> DISTRO         = "familiar"
> DISTRO_VERSION = "unstable-20061221"
> TARGET_FPU     = ""
> 
> After several hours compiling, errors appear as follow
> ERROR: function do_compile failed
> ERROR: log data follows 
[...]
> NOTE: Task
> failed: /cross/stuff/oetmp/work/mipsel-linux/busybox-1.00-r37/temp/log.do_compile.5048
> NOTE: package busybox-1.00-r37: task do_compile: failed
> ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
> NOTE: package busybox-1.00: failed
> ERROR: Build of opie-image failed
> 
> Anybody can tell me where I was wrong? I just follow the instructions
> in the getting started page.
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/GettingStarted
> and I don't know how to track the bug.

You aren't doing too badly as it looks like it built the toolchain ok
which is the hard bit. There are problems with busybox 1.0 and uclibc -
see http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657 You could try
disabling the uclibc patch as mentioned in that bug.

Also, angstrom might be a better choice of distro than familiar which
should have been disabled now in .dev.

Cheers,

Richard