[yocto] Bitbaking python fails

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:37 +0200, Andre Haupt wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> thanks for your answer. See below ... 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:59:51AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 10:37 +0200, Andre Haupt wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Building python for poky bernard fails for me with the following error:
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > ...
> > > Looking in tk80 for ['/home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/sysroots/atom-pc/usr/lib']
> > > Looking in tcl80 for ['/home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/sysroots/atom-pc/usr/lib']
> > > *** WARNING: renaming "gdbm" since importing it failed: libgdbm.so.3:
> > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > /bin/sh: line 1: 12830 Illegal instruction     (core dumped)
> > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/work/core2-poky-
> > > linux/python-2.6.6-nk1.2/Python-2.6.6:/home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build
> > > /tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/../lib/pseudo/lib:/home/ahaupt
> > > /yocto-git/build/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/../lib/pseudo/lib64
> > > CC='ccache i586-poky-linux-gcc -m32 -march=core2 -msse3
> > > -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
> > > --sysroot=/home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/sysroots/atom-pc'
> > > LDSHARED='ccache i586-poky-linux-gcc -m32 -march=core2 -msse3
> > > -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
> > > --sysroot=/home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/sysroots/atom-pc
> > > -shared' LDFLAGS='-Wl,-O1  -Wl,--as-needed'
> > > OPT='-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer
> > > -frename-registers -O2 -ggdb -feliminate-unused-debug-types'
> > > /home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/python
> > > -E ./setup.py -q build
> > > make: *** [sharedmods] Error 132
> > > FATAL: oe_runmake failed
> > > ERROR: Function 'do_compile' failed (see
> > > /home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/work/core2-poky-linux/
> > > python-2.6.6-nk1.2/temp/log.do_compile.12751
> > > for further information)
> > > 
> > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? libgdbm.so.3 exists in
> > > /home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/sysroots/atom-pc/usr/lib and points to
> > > libgdbm.so.3.0.0
> > > 
> > > My target machine is atom-pc and my build host is Fedora 13 in a
> > > VirtualBox machine.
> > 
> > I've not seen this before. You could run
> > "file /home/ahaupt/yocto-git/build/tmp/sysroots/atom-pc/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3.0.0" and check that its of the correct architecture since the invalid instruction is a weird error to see. I'm not 100% sure its that file its complaining about the instruction from though.
> 
> this is the output of the file command:
> libgdbm.so.3.0.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1
> (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped

Sounds correct...

> > Does it do this every build, erroring in the same way? I know we did see
> > some emulation corruption type issues with virtualbox in the past
> > although they've not been reported for a while. It might be worth
> > starting a new build of "bitbake python" and see if the error is
> > reproducible too...
> 
> It happens reproducible when i do a "bitbake python".

Is this on a fresh clean build directory?

You could also try "bitbake -c cleansstate python gdbm" on your existing
build directory and retry "bitbake python" to see if its reproducible
that way.

Cheers,

Richard