[yocto] m4-native, zedboard, "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform"

[akuster808]

Robert,

On 11/13/18 12:28 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   been away from YP for a few months, diving back in, want to build a
> core-image-minimal for my zedboard, and i will first admit that i'm
> using a non-approved distro (fully-updated fedora 29):
>
> "WARNING: Host distribution "fedora-29" has not been validated with
> this version of the build system; you may possibly experience
> unexpected failures. It is recommended that you use a tested
> distribution."
>
>   no matter, i will live dangerously. but then things take an ugly
> turn:
>
> "WARNING: Your host glibc verson (2.28) is newer than that in
> uninative (2.27). Disabling uninative so that sstate is not
> corrupted."

>   ok, let's see how far we get ... and that's here, trying to compile
> m4-native:
>
> | gcc   -I. -I../../m4-1.4.18/lib
> -isystem/home/rpjday/oe/builds/zedboard/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/m4-native/1.4.18-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include
> -isystem/home/rpjday/oe/builds/zedboard/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/m4-native/1.4.18-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include
> -O2 -pipe -c -o freadahead.o ../../m4-1.4.18/lib/freadahead.c
> | gcc   -I. -I../../m4-1.4.18/lib
> -isystem/home/rpjday/oe/builds/zedboard/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/m4-native/1.4.18-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include
> -isystem/home/rpjday/oe/builds/zedboard/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/m4-native/1.4.18-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include
> -O2 -pipe -c -o fseeko.o ../../m4-1.4.18/lib/fseeko.c
> | ../../m4-1.4.18/lib/freadahead.c: In function ‘freadahead’:
> | ../../m4-1.4.18/lib/fseeko.c: In function ‘rpl_fseeko’:
> | ../../m4-1.4.18/lib/freadahead.c:92:3: error: #error "Please port
> gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at the definition of
> fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report this to bug-gnulib."
> |   #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at
> the definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report
> this to bug-gnulib."
> |    ^~~~~
> | ../../m4-1.4.18/lib/fseeko.c:110:4: error: #error "Please port
> gnulib fseeko.c to your platform! Look at the code in fseeko.c, then
> report this to bug-gnulib."
> |    #error "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform! Look at the
> code in fseeko.c, then report this to bug-gnulib."
>
>
> and so on. red hat's bugzilla has an entry for just this:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595702
>
> but i'm unsure (read, have no clue) how to deal with this, and i
> suspect it affects more targets than just zedboard which is why i'm
> asking on the general YP list.
>
>   thoughts? is there a cheap fix for this? i'm about to dive into
> debugging this, but if someone wants to make my life easy, that'd be
> great.

Thud has :
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/recipes-devtools/m4?h=thud&id=95ca077ab871ceff46c2052f324f879a1d624ff4

with backports pending verification for sumo but missed th Rocko cutoff.

- armin

> rday
>
>
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