[yocto] qemu EFI build failure

[Darren Hart]

On 01/12/2012 10:27 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/12/2012 08:19 AM, Josef Ahmad wrote:
>> I tried to build a qemux86 EFI image, by setting:
>> - in my local.conf: IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live"
>> - in poly/meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf: MACHINE_FEATURES += "efi"
>>
> 
> I haven't tried live images with QEMU. For one thing, they aren't really
> necessary as you can specify all the boot parameters on the qemu command
> line. Is there are reason you want to use the live image specifically?
> 
> Also, in order to properly test EFI in QEMU, you will need to use an EFI
> BIOS - I believe you're aware of this already - but this isn't currently
> supported by the runqemu scripts that ship with yocto.
> 
>> The build gave me the following error:
> 
> 
> I'll do some test builds - it isn't clear to me what is going on here.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>
>>
>> Has anyone encountered the same error?  I'm not sure I set up the
>> correct configuration. Also, is there another way to append "efi" to
>> MACHINE_FEATURES rather than by modifying qemux86.conf?
> 
> You should be able to do something like:
> MACHINE_FEATURES_append_qemux86 = "efi"
> 
> Note that you will also need to enable the efi support in the kernel,
> which is done with the KERNEL_FEATURES variable, something like:
> KERNEL_FEATURES_append_qemux86 = "conf/efi-ext.scc"
> 
> Either of these can be set in your local.conf.
> 

More accurately:

MACHINE_FEATURES_append_qemux86=" efi pcbios"
KERNEL_FEATURES_append_qemux86=" cfg/efi-ext.scc"
IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live"

With these added to local.conf and building for qemux86 I see the same
configure failures reported by Kishore and Josef:

| ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
| acinclude.m4:363: grub_CHECK_STACK_ARG_PROBE is expanded from...

I've discussed in IRC with Nitin and he thinks this may be related to
the automake update and is looking into it.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel