[poky] poky-image-sato-sdk failed at do_rootfs

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 07:56 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 2/2/11 5:33 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Richard Purdie,
> > 
> > In message <1296645484.1544.2556.camel at rex> you wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Did you leave NO32LIBS set in local.conf as per the default?
> >>>
> >>> Good point - sorry, I had forgotten about that.  I always comment out
> >>> NO32LIBS because when building the SDK I also need this for 32 bit
> >>> machines.
> >>
> >> This option really just controls psuedo-native, it has no effect on the
> > 
> > I see - that was not clear to me from the comment ("Default to not
> > build 32 bit libs on 64 bit systems, comment this out if that is
> > desired").
> > 
> > When is this option needed, then?  If it was not needed (and is
> > broken), should it eventually be removed?
> 
> PSEUDO is similar to fakeroot, it is a LD_PRELOADed library that intercepts
> certain calls, and emulates a root user capable environment.
> 
> As such, it MUST be able to intercept both 32-bit and 64-bit function calls,
> when both are available on a host.
> 
> So if you have both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries installed on your host, you need
> to disable the NO32LIBS, otherwise you could end up with an incomplete faked
> root environment.

Since poky builds all its own tools out the box, this isn't something
I've ever seen a user get bitten by so far. There are people using say
an external 32 bit toolchain on a 64 bit machine who do need this
functionality though.

Cheers,

Richard