[meta-freescale] Junk install script created upon bitbake meta-toolchain

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Umar Qureshey <umar at janteq.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Umar Qureshey <umar at janteq.com> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Umar Qureshey <umar at janteq.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Umar Qureshey <umar at janteq.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >> ...
>> >> >> > Wow, the binary is embedded inside the script.  Because creating
>> >> >> > a
>> >> >> separate file is just so much trouble.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> This is done this way as it is relocatable; we used to build a
>> >> >> tarball file but it does not allow you to choose where to install
>> >> >> it and the script allow it to solve this problem. It is a very
>> >> >> user friendly way to install a toolchain. It should have been made
>> >> >> executable
>> >> indeed.
>> >> >
>> >> > Ok, thank you for clarifying.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm noticing issues arising with Fedora.  I posted previously about
>> >> > how Qt
>> >> image won't build on Fedora.  If I had a virtual machine I'd switch
>> >> to Ubuntu but switching my real metal development box from Fedora to
>> >> Ubuntu is something I'd rather not do.
>> >>
>> >> I didn't see the message about the failure; can you point me to the
>> message?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Sure, you actually did respond to that.  Here is the link:
>> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2013-August/00
>> > 4081.html
>>
>> Sure; now I recall it ... well we are in a bad situation here as I cannot
>> reproduce it.
>>
>> May you reproduce it and try to attach a strace to see where it is stuck?
>
> Ok here is the strace (again, it got stuck on do_configure for qt-embedded and I had to hit Ctrl-C to bail out):
>
> execve("/mnt/veriton/umar/imx6/yocto/fsl-community-bsp/sources/poky/scripts/bitbake", ["bitbake", "qt4e-demo-image"], [/* 49 vars */]) = 0
> brk(0)                                  = 0x1e23000

But it'd be good to get the strace of the process which configure is
running. Otherwise we just get information about bitbake.

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