[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm] Can't build QT5 for i.MX6

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-01-21 15:00, John Weber wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 1/21/14 3:52 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I've been trying to build QT5 from meta-qt5 layer without success.
>> All attempts result in compile errors, as seen in http://ix.io/a2F
>> I'm using Poky/Yocto + meta-fsl-arm* latest master:
>>   Build Configuration:
>>   BB_VERSION        = "1.21.1"
>>   BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
>>   NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-12.04"
>>   TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
>>   MACHINE           = "wandboard-quad"
>>   DISTRO            = "poky"
>>   DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.5+snapshot-20140121"
>>   TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa9"
>>   TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
>>   meta              = "master:97d7e8689ca83a13ea511c0b91bf80974b8750b0"
>>   meta-fsl-arm      = "master:a899296ac603f549b28200a7c38d4ec4ca5c1ad5"
>>   meta-fsl-arm-extra = "master:6a8759c593e8cd85f0dccb9e3b6de25adf2b3bb1"
>>   meta-yocto
>>   meta-yocto-bsp    = "master:97d7e8689ca83a13ea511c0b91bf80974b8750b0"
>>   meta-qt5          = "master:775d77e482f1ea203c78003cccd2547075fd720f"
>> I've tried different built hosts (Fedora/i586 as well) and other i.MX6
>> targets, all fail the same way.
>>
>> The key error from the log seems to be:
>> /local/wandboard_test/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-mx6-poky-linux-gnueabi/qtbase/5.1.1-r0/qtbase-opensource-src-5.1.1/include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/io/qurl.h:132:9: error:
>> expected identifier before numeric constant
>>          None = 0x0,
>>          ^
>> /local/wandboard_test/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-mx6-poky-linux-gnueabi/qtbase/5.1.1-r0/qtbase-opensource-src-5.1.1/include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/io/qurl.h:132:9: error:
>> expected '}' before numeric constant
>>
>> It looks like somehow 'None' has been defined to be something?
>>
>> It appears that QT5 has been built, at least at some point, according to
>> the page http://wiki.wandboard.org/index.php/Building_Qt5_using_yocto_on_Wandboard
>> I tried to duplicate this using the 'dora' branches with the same
>> failure as above.
> That's strange, because I just built it with Dora like 12 times in a row suing the instructions from the above link while trying to see what was causing a boot problem and never
> saw this failure.
>>
>> The problem is definitely i.MX related as I can build for other ARM
>> targets, OMAP3, OMAP4, qemuarm, etc.
>>
>> Any ideas about this?  You can't imagine how many hours I've been chasing this one!
>>
>> Thanks

I just tried this again, following exactly the steps from the wandboard wiki,
with still the same failures.

What could be different?  I've tried different build hosts, different branches,
even different build sequences.  I have no problem building this package for
any other target, but it always fails for i.MX6

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