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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-01-23 05:08, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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
>

Interestingly, I can build if I remove/disable this .bbappend
   meta-fsl-arm/qt5-layer/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase_5.1.1.bbappend

I don't see how that file can cause the error I'm getting, but at least
I know how to get _something_ built.

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