[yocto] Failing build following Quick Start

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 13:13 +0000, Adolfo Sanchez wrote:
> I am new to Yocto and trying to learn the basics of the system
> 
> I am following the Yocto Quick Start guide: 
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.1/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-q
> s.html
> 
> Details:
> 1) I am using Lubuntu 16.04 64bits on a Oracle VirtualBox VM, over a
> Windows10 host.
> 2) I downloaded the poky from the Yocto page instead of download it
> via git
> 3) I am tryting to build the basic core-image-sato for qemu
> 4) I am getting  the following error:
> ERROR: Task 1921 (virtual:native:/home/adolfo/Yocto-testin/poky-
> krogoth-15.0.1/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp_6.1.0.bb, do_compile)
> failed with exit code '1'
> 5) I test  the ${WORKDIR}/temp/run.do_compile I get the following
> error: 
> x86_64-linux-libtool:   error: 'abs.lo' is not a valid libtool object
> Makefile:421: recipe for target 'libmpq.la' failed
> make[2]: *** [libmpq.la] Error 1
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Is this error reproducible, e.g. if you run "bitbake gmp-native -c
clean" which will wipe out the piece of source code that is failing,
then run "bitbake core-image-sato" again, does it work?

Cheers,

Richard