[yocto] poky-tiny breaks at ncurses and perl (Dylan 9.0.1)

[Tom Zanussi]

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:45 -0500, r10kindsofpeople wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>         On 12/09/2013 11:51 AM, r10kindsofpeople wrote:
>                 On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Tom Zanussi
>                 <tom.zanussi at intel.com
>                 <mailto:tom.zanussi at intel.com>> wrote:
>                 
>                     On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 14:08 -0500,
>                 r10kindsofpeople wrote:
>                      > After some success building my system
>                 (crownbay), I'm now trying to
>                      > optimize boot time, so I read up on poky-tiny,
>                 created a new
>                     layer and
>                      > am trying to build.  I think I've pulled most
>                 of my system
>                     changes out
>                      > so that I can at least bitbake
>                 core-image-minimal, but I'm still not
>                      > able to get past ncurses config and perl.
>                  (ncurses reports autoconf
>                      > errors in widec, perl has undefined references
>                 to gcvt, I'm also
>                      > getting complaints about multiple providers for
>                 the kernel, etc.)
>                      >
>                      >
>                      > Is poky-tiny still active and tested?  What are
>                 the odds of this
>                     being
>                      > resolved in Dora versus the odds of running
>                 into other migration
>                      > issues?
>                      >
>                 
>                     I haven't tried poky-tiny with dylan, but I have
>                 with dora and didn't
>                     run into any build problems - the build errors
>                 you're running into
>                     aren't things I've seen either.
>                 
>                     So maybe you can try with dora and see what
>                 happens - if you still run
>                     into problems, please provide some more details on
>                 your setup.
>                 
>                 
>                 Thanks, Tom...using Dora, I was able to get the basic
>                 system to build.
>                 
>                 Adding some features (dhcp-server, for instance) still
>                 breaks the build,
>                 but I suspect that's just a consequence of -tiny doing
>                 it's thing.
>                 
>         John, that's probably correct, the tiny configuration uses
>         uclibc and if you see bug number 5431
>         (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5431),
>         there are a number of recipes that will not build correctly
>         with the full uclibc, but that was with a full uclibc, where
>         as the tiny configuration cuts down ulibc to just support the
>         bare minimum.
>         
>         Hope that helps with your efforts.
>         
>         Sau!
>         
>         
> Thanks, Saul, I'll take a look.
> 
> 
> A "FWIW" for any and all...to get qemu to work with the tiny image, I
> had to do a menuconfig for busybox and add "setsid" and "cttyhack",
> otherwise I was getting "not found" and "error 127" loops on startup.
>  
> 
> 
> (hints on how to do this without menuconfig are welcome...I tried
> creating my own recipe and adding package ${PN}-setsid or including my
> own (edited) defconfig, but neither seemed to work. 

I also ran into that problem and sent an initial fix for it:

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2013-November/009378.html

I still need to 'fix' the fix but it works in any case..

Tom


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