[yocto] Build failure (Segmentation fault) with Fido on CentOS

[Andy Pont]

Hello,

After several years away from OpenEmbedded and MVL6 I am back trying to work
with Yocto and BitBake!

My build system is a Core-i7 3770 running CentOS 6.7 (x86_64) with all the
latest updates applied.  I have cloned Fido from the git repository and set
the target as "genericx86" and started the build with "bitbake
core-image-minimal".  The build is failing with the following output (some
path names changed to protect the innocent):

g++: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program as)
| Please submit a full bug report.
| See <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions.
| Makefile:1059: recipe for target 'tree.o' failed
| make[1]: *** [tree.o] Error 1
| make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
| rm gcc.pod
| make[1]: Leaving directory
'XXXXX/build/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/gcc-cross-initial-i586/4.9.2-r0/gcc-
4.9.2/build.x86_64-linux.i586-poky-linux/gcc'
| Makefile:3954: recipe for target 'all-gcc' failed
| make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
| ERROR: oe_runmake failed
| WARNING:
XXXXX/build/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/gcc-cross-initial-i586/4.9.2-r0/temp/
run.do_compile.9831:1 exit 1 from
|   exit 1
| ERROR: Function failed: do_compile (log file is located at
XXXXX/build/tmp/work/x86_64-poky-linux/gcc-cross-initial-i586/4.9.2-r0/temp/
log.do_compile.9831)

As CentOS runs some very old versions of certain tools I have installed the
native standalone SDK (v1.8) to get a version of Python that works for
BitBake.  Is this down to the fact that the native gcc/g++ version on CentOS
is 4.4.7 and binutils is v2.20.51 or have I missed something in the setup?

Thanks,

Andy.