[yocto] qemu EFI build failure

[Josef Ahmad]

Thanks Nitin,

That fixed my automake errors.

- Josef

On 12 January 2012 22:33, Kamble, Nitin A <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com> wrote:
> Here is the commit: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=nitin/misc
>
> Nitin
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Kamble, Nitin A
>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:32 PM
>> To: Hart, Darren; Bodke, Kishore K
>> Cc: Ahmad, Josef; yocto at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [yocto] qemu EFI build failure
>>
>>
>> I just sent a patch to oecore mailing list to fix the grub issue with
>> automake 1.11.2.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nitin
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Hart, Darren
>> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:39 PM
>> > To: Bodke, Kishore K
>> > Cc: Ahmad, Josef; yocto at yoctoproject.org; Kamble, Nitin A
>> > Subject: Re: [yocto] qemu EFI build failure
>> >
>> > On 01/12/2012 01:28 PM, Bodke, Kishore K wrote:
>> > > I have only
>> > > MACHINE_FEATURES += "efi"
>> > > KERNEL_FEATURES_append_cedartrail += "cfg/efi-ext.scc".
>> > >
>> > > I am not having IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live".
>> >
>> > The "live" change is just to trigger the live image type which builds
>> > grub-efi-native for efi systems. qemux86 needs this added explicitly.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Darren
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Thanks
>> > > Kishore.
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: Hart, Darren
>> > > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:20 PM
>> > > To: Ahmad, Josef
>> > > Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org; Bodke, Kishore K; Kamble, Nitin A
>> > > Subject: Re: [yocto] qemu EFI build failure
>> > >
>> > > 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
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