[yocto] yocto jethro failed on gettext-native

[Oliver Graute]

On 25/04/18, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:03 AM, Oliver Graute <oliver.graute at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I try to compile yocto jethro environment which is working
> > on a Ubuntu 14.04 installation. But not on a Kubuntu 16.04.
> >
> > The compilations stops on gettext-native.
> >
> > bitbake -k fsl-image-mfgtool-initramfs
> >
> > | x86_64-linux-libtool:   error: 'libgettextsrc_la-message.lo' is not a valid libtool object
> 
> libgettextsrc_la-message.lo should be a short text file. Could you
> find it in your build tree and post a copy?
> 

the file was a zero byte file. All other *.lo files in that directory
was zero byte too. I assume because of a system crash I had before.

Just a bitbake -c cleansstate and rebuild of gettext-native didn't fixed that.

I deleted all the build-imx6ulevk folder and build everything from
scratch with only one thread, waited a few hours for compilation and now
its working ;)

> > Some ideas whats the cause for this error?
> 
> At a guess, something a little unusual with the setup of your Kubuntu
> system. Combining Ubuntu 16.04 with OE 2.0 isn't so out of the
> ordinary and others would certainly have hit the problem before now if
> it was always seen.
> 
> Did you install all the standard host dependencies?
> 
>   https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.0/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html#packages
> 

yes but thanks for the link as reference.

Best regards,

Oliver