[yocto] crownbay-noemgd poky-image-minimal fails to build

Fri Jul 29 07:11:10 PDT 2011

On 29/07/2011 15:02, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 07/29/11 09:57, Malcolm Crossley wrote:
>> On 29/07/2011 14:12, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>> On 07/29/11 06:05, Andre Haupt wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 09:23:59AM +0200, Andre Haupt wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to build a poky bernard image for crownbay-noemgd.
>>>>> For this i checked out the bernard branch of both poky and meta-intel
>>>>> from git.yoctoproject.org.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bitbake fails during the kernels compile_perf task complaining that
>>>>> it can not
>>>>> find libdw.h and bfd.h and that using /usr/local/include as include
>>>>> location is unsafe for cross compilation (full log attached).
>>>>>
>>>>> What do i miss here?
>>>>
>>>> I did work around this with
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-stable_git.bb
>>>> b/meta/recipes-
>>>> index 3c1e669..85caa92 100644
>>>> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-stable_git.bb
>>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-stable_git.bb
>>>> @@ -42,4 +42,4 @@ KERNEL_FEATURES=features/netfilter
>>>> addtask kernel_link_vmlinux after do_compile before do_install
>>>> addtask validate_branches before do_patch after do_kernel_checkout
>>>>
>>>> -require linux-tools.inc
>>>> +#require linux-tools.inc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> not sure that this is the right thing to do though.
>>>
>>> It's an acceptable work around to keep you building on your
>>> local machine, assuming that you don't need perf. But the
>>> linux-yocto recipes always want to provide perf, and hence
>>> have that include.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to dust off my memory here. I know that this has
>>> been seen, and I also know that this built fine in the bernard
>>> release.
>>>
>>> The first part of the issue is the:
>>>
>>> Makefile:508: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found, disables dwarf
>>> support. Please install elfutils-devel/elfutils-dev
>>>
>>> We may have a missing host dependency in the checks. Have you
>>> tried installing the relevant package for F13 ?
>>>
>>> As for the second, there's a patch in the 2.6.34 kernel tree
>>> that is dealing with it:
>>>
>>> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/linux-yocto-2.6.34/commit/?h=standard&id=72ca49ab08b8eb475cec82a10049503602325791 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It sounds like there may be a SRCREV problem for the board that
>>> isn't picking up that change. Can you confirm that this commit
>>> is in your board branch ? You can check in your build directory
>>> for linux.
>>
>> I have found that stable branch 2.6.34 contains a bug when trying to
>> build the perf tools. I have a patch but I've not been able to upstream
>> it yet, I've copy pasted it inline here, hopefully it doesn't wrap too
>> badly:
>
> Just so I've got all the context here. This failure is
> on top of the one you were asking about ? (the unsafe
> / includes). And this is unique to the 2.6.34-stable
> perf variant (i.e. no other newer kernel release has
> the issue) ?
The patch is required on 2.6.34-stable but not on 2.6.34 vanilla. I have 
not tested newer kernels but I believe there would be some compliants if 
it was still broken. So I think there was some specific backporting 
breakage with 2.6.34-stable.  Without the patch I got this error on 
2.6.34.6:

NOTE: make -j 2 DESTDIR=/home/gefanuc/auto/main/build/work/ge-sbc612-angstrom-linux/linux-ge-2.6.x+22411-r0/image CC=powerpc-angstrom-linux-gcc  LD=powerpc-angstrom-linux-ld
Makefile:508: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found, disables dwarf support. Please install elfutils-devel/elfutils-dev
touch .perf.dev.null
     CC perf.o
     CC bench/sched-messaging.o
bench/sched-messaging.c:34: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'use_pipes'
bench/sched-messaging.c:36: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'thread_mode'
bench/sched-messaging.c: In function 'fdpair':
bench/sched-messaging.c:61: error: 'use_pipes' undeclared (first use in this function)
bench/sched-messaging.c:61: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
bench/sched-messaging.c:61: error: for each function it appears in.)
bench/sched-messaging.c: In function 'receiver':
bench/sched-messaging.c:120: error: 'thread_mode' undeclared (first use in this function)
bench/sched-messaging.c: In function 'create_worker':
bench/sched-messaging.c:149: error: 'thread_mode' undeclared (first use in this function)
bench/sched-messaging.c: In function 'reap_worker':
bench/sched-messaging.c:189: error: 'thread_mode' undeclared (first use in this function)
bench/sched-messaging.c: In function 'group':
bench/sched-messaging.c:232: error: 'thread_mode' undeclared (first use in this function)
bench/sched-messaging.c: At top level:
bench/sched-messaging.c:255: error: 'use_pipes' undeclared here (not in a function)
bench/sched-messaging.c:257: error: 'thread_mode' undeclared here (not in a function)
make: *** [bench/sched-messaging.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Regards

Malcolm


>
> with those answers, I can appropriately deal with it
> and vector it to the right places.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> Author: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley at ge.com>
>> Date: Fri Jul 22 22:44:53 2011 +0100
>>
>> Kernel version 2.6.34.6. has a bug with regards to it's perf tool source
>> files. This patch adds a missing include directive.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley at ge.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.h b/tools/perf/perf.h
>> index 6fb379b..3c497c5 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/perf.h
>> +++ b/tools/perf/perf.h
>> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
>> #include <unistd.h>
>> #include <sys/types.h>
>> #include <sys/syscall.h>
>> +#include <stdbool.h>
>>
>> #include "../../include/linux/perf_event.h"
>> #include "util/types.h"
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Malcolm
>>
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Andre
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