[yocto] Arguement list too big error in bitbake meta-toolchain for MIPS architechture-Gentle Reminder

[Martin Jansa]

I had similar issue, but in my case it wasn't even showing it's /bin/cp
having problems, actually it was failing like this with tar and only one
argument :/

http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-January/035089.html


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Krishna Dwivedi <
Krishna.Dwivedi at aricent.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I am trying on fedora 18 and I am continuously running into this issue.
>
> Regards,
> Krishna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday at crashcourse.ca]
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 4:57 PM
> To: Krishna Dwivedi
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Arguement list too big error in bitbake
> meta-toolchain for MIPS architechture-Gentle Reminder
>
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Krishna Dwivedi wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to build recipe meta-toolchain for MIPS architecture but
> > running into errors. Can anyone please let me know, if I am missing
> > anything here or what could be root cause of this and how can I fix
> > it. I have followed these steps:
> >
> > 1)In  WORKDIR/build/conf/local.conf-I selected MACHINE ?= "qemumips" for
> mips architechture.
> >
> > 2)source oe-init-build-env.
>
> > 3)bitbake meta-toolchain.
> >
> > In third step,I am running into these errors:
> >
> > NOTE: recipe nativesdk-gettext-0.18.2-r0: task do_configure: Started
> >
> > ERROR: Error executing a python function in
> > /home/netlogic/yocto/poky/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-locale_2.17.bb
> :
> >
> > CalledProcessError: Command 'cp
> > -al/home/netlogic/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/mips32-poky-linux/eglibc-l
> > ocale/2.17-r0/packages-sp
> > lit/*/home/netlogic/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/mips32-poky-linux/eglibc
> > -locale/2.17-r0/sstate-buil d-package//packages-split' returned
> > non-zero exit status 126 with output /bin/sh: /bin/cp:
> > Argument list too long
>
> ... snip ...
>
>   i just did the above on my ubuntu system -- qemumips and "bitbake
> meta-toolchain" -- and i can see that step running right now among 4
> running tasks:
>
> 0: nativesdk-gettext-0.18.2-r0 do_configure (pid 6695)
>
>   man, sure seems to be taking a while, while other tasks complete and are
> replaced by new tasks.  oh, wait, it just completed, replaced by:
>
> 2: nativesdk-gettext-0.18.2-r0 do_compile (pid 12727)
>
> so the configure step seems to have succeeded. in other words, works for
> me. and:
>
> $ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 22  2012 /bin/sh -> bash $
>
> rday
>
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