[yocto] Problem compiling diffutils on poky-tiny in danny

[Darren Hart]

On 11/14/2012 10:57 AM, Tim Bird wrote:
> On 11/14/2012 10:50 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>> runqemu doesn't quite know what to make of poky-tiny :-) Try the following:
>>
>> $ qemu-system-i386 -kernel path/to/kernel -initrd path/to/image.cpio.gz
>> -nographic -append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram0"
> 
> Ahh.  That's helpful.  Thanks.
> 
>> I really need to get the poky-tiny docs going... right after I finish
>> these kernel docs I guess... anyone want to volunteer?
> 
> I'd be happy to write some stuff up.  It wouldn't
> be exhaustive, but I could document what I've found out about
> (the LIBC_FEATURE stuff, and some of the dependencies I've found,
> as well as invocation tips and some of the differences between
> the poky default and poky-tiny packages and features).
> 
> Where would you like it?  Is there a wiki page or a doc already started?

Not yet, how about here:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Projects/Poky-Tiny

And we'll link to it here:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Projects

Thanks for volunteering, very much appreciated!

--
Darren

> 
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone seen this type of error before, or can provide some
>>>>> hints of what to check or adjust to fix this?
>>>>
>>>> Yup, it's wide characters being required by diffutils and being excluded
>>>> by the poky-tiny DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC assignment. If supported by
>>>> diffutils, we might be able to test ENABLE_WIDEC in diffutils and
>>>> configure accordingly (see the ncurses recipes for an example).
>>>
>>> I'll poke around.  I'm curious why poky-tiny core-image-minimal built
>>> OK, but core-image-minimal-initramfs didn't.  I didn't expect
>>> any difference in target-side binaries between the two - only some
>>> changes in the image build steps.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the tips.  I'll check it out.
>>
>> Let me know what you find out. I thought the initramfs had the installer
>> in it, but maybe that's included by some other mechanism.
> 
> Will do.
>  -- Tim
> 
> =============================
> Tim Bird
> Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation
> Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
> =============================
> 

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