[poky] eglibc build problem

[Gary Thomas]

On 07/05/2011 05:26 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 05:20 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I have a distribution which is derived from Poky.  It has been
>> building great until recently, but now it fails when building
>> 'eglibc' for the target with this error:
>>
>> $ cat /home/local/p60_latest/tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/temp/log.do_install_locale.13725
>> cp: cannot stat `/home/local/p60_latest/tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/image/usr/bin/localedef': No such file or directory
>> ERROR: Function 'do_install_locale' failed (see /home/local/p60_latest/tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/temp/log.do_install_locale.13725 for further
>> information)
>>
>> Looking around in the eglibc build, I can't see localedef being built:
>> $ find tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi/ -name "locale*"
>> tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi/localedata
>> tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi/locale
>> tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi/intl/localealias.os.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi/intl/localealias.o.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi/intl/localealias.os
>> tmp/work/armv7a-amltd-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-amltd-linux-gnueabi/intl/localealias.o
>>
>> However, if I build for the BeagleBoard using the same Poky tree,
>> it does work and I see:
>> $ find tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/ -name "locale*"
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/localedata
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localename.os
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localename.o
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localeconv.os
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localeconv.o
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localedef.o.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localename.o.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localeconv.os.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localedef
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/locale.o
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/locale-spec.o.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localedef.o
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localename.os.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/locale.o.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/localeconv.o.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/locale
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/locale/locale-spec.o
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/intl/localealias.os.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/intl/localealias.o.d
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/intl/localealias.os
>> tmp/work/armv7a-poky-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.13-r3+svnr14157/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/intl/localealias.o
>>
>> Any ideas what would keep the localedef stuff from being built for my
>> board whereas it is built for a standard board?
>>
>> As I said, this has been working great up until some time recently.
>> I can't see any hint in the commit logs of what might have changed
>> to break it.  ... that will teach me to take a 2 week holiday!
>
> I'm going to guess that your distro overrides DISTRO_FEATURES and you
> are missing some of the new libc settings...

Thanks, that does look promising.

That said, would this not then be a bug?  DISTRO_FEATURES does not imply
localedefs, but the recipe still expects it to be there?

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