[poky] Poky on "standard" PC

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 11-01-25 11:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 01/25/2011 06:45 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Gary Thomas<gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2011 03:54 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01/24/2011 04:39 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 05:05 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wanted to try Poky on a spare laptop, so I went looking
>>>>>> for an appropriate configuration to build.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From 'README.hardware' (last updated 2010-12-16), I read:
>>>>>> Poky Boot CD (bootcdx86)
>>>>>> ========================
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Poky boot CD iso images are designed as a demonstration of the
>>>>>> Poky
>>>>>> environment and to show the versatile image formats Poky can
>>>>>> generate.
>>>>>> It will
>>>>>> run on Pentium2 or greater PC style computers. The iso image can be
>>>>>> burnt to CD and then booted from.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I tried it (it's also listed in the default local.conf),
>>>>>> I got this error:
>>>>>> Please set TARGET_ARCH directly, or choose a MACHINE or DISTRO
>>>>>> that does
>>>>>> so.
>>>>>> Please set a valid MACHINE in your local.conf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There seems to be no machine named 'bootcd*' anywhere :-(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What should I be using?
>>>>>
>>>>> bootcdx86 was superceeded by the -live images. I'd suggest using the
>>>>> qemux86 or atom-pc machines and building a -live image, dd that to
>>>>> a usb
>>>>> stick and boot that on the laptop. An iso format image is also
>>>>> generated
>>>>> that can be placed onto a CD.
>>>>
>>>> It will have to be atom-pc as qemu doesn't provide live images (last I
>>>> checked, a few weeks back).
>>>
>>> Sadly, this doesn't build :-( Failed in compile_perf, log attached.
>>
>> Hmm. This one was worked around a while ago via:
>>
>> commit d38ad3271829b2d282c973e69edd265ef52174c8
>> Author: Tom Zanussi<tom.zanussi at intel.com>
>> Date: Fri Jan 14 16:33:05 2011 -0600
>>
>> linux-yocto: hard-code NO_LIBPERL/NO_LIBPYTHON
>>
>> ExtUtils::Embed ccopts is getting the host's -I/usr/local/include and
>> using it to compile perf, which results in a compilation error that
>> started appearing just recently.
>>
>> This turns the code that makes use of ExtUtils::Embed off and simply
>> hard-codes NO_LIBPERL.
>>
>> It does the same for LIBPYTHON while we're at it, since it probably
>> suffers from a similar underlying problem and just by chance hasn't
>> broken anything yet.
>>
>> This will be re-enabled after I familiarize myself with the perf
>> recipe and am able to create a proper fix.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi<tom.zanussi at intel.com>
>>
>> :100644 100644 21023da... 7833f65... M
>> meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_git.bb
>>
>> But the issue hadn't been showing up on the -stable .. until now. We
>> can cherry
>> pick this patch and commit to at least temporarily work around it.
>>
>> I would have expected the nightly builds to show this one, since not all
>> supported targets have moved to 2.6.37.
>
> I just updated to the latest master and started from scratch.
> It's still happening :-(
>
> OE Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION = "1.11.0"
> METADATA_BRANCH = "master"
> METADATA_REVISION = "beb9166b3adf83c5e864afcb56cf9ea24f55a7c3"
> TARGET_ARCH = "i586"
> TARGET_OS = "linux"
> MACHINE = "atom-pc"
> DISTRO = "poky"
> DISTRO_VERSION = "0.9+snapshot-20110125"
> TARGET_FPU = ""
>
> | CC util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o
> | cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> | cc1: error: include location "/usr/local/include" is unsafe for
> cross-compilation
> | make: *** [util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o] Error 1
> | make: Leaving directory
> `/home/local/pc_poky/tmp/work/atom-pc-poky-linux/linux-yocto-stable-2.6.34+git1+e1f85a470934a0cf6abde5d95533e74501822c6b_0+35521a5a70316785a67aca1de1d39a7b84c49ccf-r1/linux/tools/perf'
>
> | FATAL: oe_runmake failed
> | Function 'do_compile_perf' failed (see
> /home/local/pc_poky/tmp/work/atom-pc-poky-linux/linux-yocto-stable-2.6.34+git1+e1f85a470934a0cf6abde5d95533e74501822c6b_0+35521a5a70316785a67aca1de1d39a7b84c49ccf-r1/temp/log.do_compile_perf.8191
> for further information)
> | ERROR: Function 'do_compile_perf' failed (see
> /home/local/pc_poky/tmp/work/atom-pc-poky-linux/linux-yocto-stable-2.6.34+git1+e1f85a470934a0cf6abde5d95533e74501822c6b_0+35521a5a70316785a67aca1de1d39a7b84c49ccf-r1/temp/log.do_compile_perf.8191
> for further information)
> NOTE: package
> linux-yocto-stable-2.6.34+git1+e1f85a470934a0cf6abde5d95533e74501822c6b_0+35521a5a70316785a67aca1de1d39a7b84c49ccf-r1:
> task do_compile_perf: Failed
>
> Maybe it has something to do with my build host (Fedora-13, x86)?

In this case the host is fine. That commit was on the
2.6.37 kernel, and I used your report as a trigger and
backported it to 2.6.34. I have a pull request out now,
which should fixup the perf compilation issues once
merged.

Bruce

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