building toolchain fails

[Sagaert Johan]

Hi

i used the 2009.08 on 2 systems without problems and i decided to give the
latest version a try:

I failed in building on both machines :

on my debian i ended up with :

....
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
make: *** [/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/ncurses-5.6/.configured] Error
77

gcc is on the path,
under buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin there is a softlink of
arm-linux-gcc pointing to executable ccache ???

under buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin-ccache there is a softlink
arm-linux-gcc pointing to executable arm-linux-uclibc-gcc (this seems to
be the cottect compiler )



on my ubuntu 8.10 machine i ended with an error : error: no acceptable m4
could be found in $PATH.
i have 1.4.11 on my system so that should be ok

I have seen Noel Vellemans also reporting this issue, but no solution yet..

Any clues ?
for now i patched my 2009.08 version to use 2.6.31.4 and bbox 1.15.2

Johan

Checking build system dependencies:
Overriding $(DL_DIR) in '.config'. Ok
External download directory: Ok (/home/johan/dl)
CC clean: Ok
CXX clean: Ok
CPP clean: Ok
CFLAGS clean: Ok
INCLUDES clean: Ok
CXXFLAGS clean: Ok
which installed: Ok
sed works: Ok (/bin/sed)
GNU make version '3.81': Ok
C compiler '/usr/bin/gcc'
C compiler version '4.3.2': Ok
C++ compiler '/usr/bin/g++'
C++ compiler version '4.3.2': Ok
awk installed: Ok
bash installed: Ok
bison installed: Ok
flex installed: Ok
gettext installed: Ok
makeinfo installed: Ok
patch installed: Ok
Build system dependencies: Ok

rm -rf /home/johan/buildroot/output/build/buildroot-config
mkdir -p /home/johan/buildroot/output/build
cp -dpRf package/config/buildroot-config
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/buildroot-config
cp -dpf /home/johan/buildroot/output/build/u-boot-2009.06/tools/mkimage
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/
>>> autoconf 2.64 Configuring
cd /home/johan/buildroot/output/build/autoconf-2.64/ && rm -f config.cache
&& \

PATH="/home/johan/buildroot/output/toolchain/bin:/home/johan/buildroot/outpu
t/host/bin:/home/johan/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin:/home/johan/buildroot/o
utput/build/staging_dir/bin:/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/u
sr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/gam
es:/home/johan/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin"
AR="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc-
ar"
AS="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc-
as"
LD="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc-
ld"
NM="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc-
nm"
CC="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc-
gcc -Os -pipe -O2
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/include
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/include
--sysroot=/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/ -isysroot
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir -mabi=apcs-gnu
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
GCC="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc
-gcc -Os -pipe -O2
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/include
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/include
--sysroot=/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/ -isysroot
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir -mabi=apcs-gnu
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
CPP="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc
-cpp -Os -pipe -O2
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/include
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/include
--sysroot=/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/ -isysroot
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir -mabi=apcs-gnu
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
CXX="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc
-g++ -Os -pipe -O2
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/include
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/include
--sysroot=/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/ -isysroot
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir -mabi=apcs-gnu
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
FC="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc-
gfortran "
RANLIB="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-ucl
ibc-ranlib"
STRIP="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-ucli
bc-strip"
OBJCOPY="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uc
libc-objcopy" AR_FOR_BUILD="/usr/bin/ar" AS_FOR_BUILD="/usr/bin/as"
CC_FOR_BUILD="/usr/bin/gcc" GCC_FOR_BUILD="/usr/bin/gcc"
CXX_FOR_BUILD="/usr/bin/g++" FC_FOR_BUILD="/usr/bin/ld"
LD_FOR_BUILD="/usr/bin/ld"
CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD="-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/host/include
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/host/usr/include"
CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD="-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/host/include
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/host/usr/include"
LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD="-L/home/johan/buildroot/output/host/lib
-L/home/johan/buildroot/output/host/usr/lib" FCFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=""
AR_FOR_TARGET="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-li
nux-uclibc-ar"
AS_FOR_TARGET="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-li
nux-uclibc-as"
CC_FOR_TARGET="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-li
nux-uclibc-gcc"
LD_FOR_TARGET="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-li
nux-uclibc-ld"
NM_FOR_TARGET="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-li
nux-uclibc-nm"
DEFAULT_ASSEMBLER="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/ar
m-linux-uclibc-as"
DEFAULT_LINKER="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-l
inux-uclibc-ld"
PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir"
PKG_CONFIG="/home/johan/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/pkg-config"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/lib/pkgc
onfig:" STAGING_DIR="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir" \
ac_cv_lbl_unaligned_fail=yes ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped=yes
ac_cv_func_memcmp_working=yes ac_cv_have_decl_malloc=yes
gl_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes
ac_cv_func_calloc_0_nonnull=yes ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes
ac_cv_c_bigendian=no \
CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -O2
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/include
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/include
--sysroot=/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/ -isysroot
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir -mabi=apcs-gnu
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe -O2
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/include
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/include
--sysroot=/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/ -isysroot
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir -mabi=apcs-gnu
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
LDFLAGS="-L/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/lib
-L/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/lib
--sysroot=/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/" FCFLAGS="" \
EMACS="no" \
./configure \
--cache-file="/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/tgt-config.cache" \
--target=arm-linux \
--host=arm-linux \
--build=i386-pc-linux-gnu \
--prefix=/usr \
--exec-prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--disable-gtk-doc \
\
\
\

configure: loading cache /home/johan/buildroot/output/build/tgt-config.cache
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for arm-linux-strip...
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibc-stri
p
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... no
checking for characters that cannot appear in file names... none
checking whether directories can have trailing spaces... yes
checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr
checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-gtk-doc
configure: error: no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH.
GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.13 is recommended
make: ***
[/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/autoconf-2.64/.stamp_configured] Error 1

[Peter Korsgaard]

Sagaert> Hi
Sagaert> i used the 2009.08 on 2 systems without problems and i decided to give the
Sagaert> latest version a try:

Sagaert> I failed in building on both machines :

Sagaert> on my debian i ended up with :

Your subject seems to imply that you have a problem building toolchains,
but in both cases it's a problem building a package for the host?

Sagaert> ....
Sagaert> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
Sagaert> make: *** [/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/ncurses-5.6/.configured] Error 77

Strange. Ncurses builds here (also on Debian). What configure check
fails? (have a look at config.log in build/ncurses-5.6)

Sagaert> gcc is on the path,
Sagaert> under buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin there is a softlink of
Sagaert> arm-linux-gcc pointing to executable ccache ???

You have presumably enabled ccache support then.

Sagaert> on my ubuntu 8.10 machine i ended with an error : error: no acceptable m4 could
Sagaert> be found in $PATH.
Sagaert> i have 1.4.11 on my system so that should be ok

Sagaert> I have seen Noel Vellemans also reporting this issue, but no solution yet..

Sagaert> Any clues ?
Sagaert> for now i patched my 2009.08 version to use 2.6.31.4 and bbox 1.15.2

Sagaert> [7m>>> autoconf 2.64 Configuring [27m

This is autoconfig for the target - A pretty uncommon thing to build.

Sagaert> checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces...
Sagaert> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-gtk-doc
Sagaert> configure: error: no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH.
Sagaert> GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.13 is recommended
Sagaert> make: *** [/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/autoconf-2.64/.stamp_configured]

It seems like autoconf needs a dependency on m4. Could you try adding m4
to package/autoconf/autoconf.mk: AUTOCONF_DEPENDENCIES and try again?

If that fails, check config.log to see what/why it fails.

[Peter Korsgaard]

Sagaert> Peter

Sagaert> See attachement concerning my debian

Sagaert> I will now look what i can do on the ubuntu machine.

Please keep discussion on the mailing list instead of mailing me
directly, so others can also follow.

Looking at your config.log makes the problem pretty obvious:

configure:1716: checking for C compiler default output
configure:1719: /home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux
-uclibc-gcc -Os -pipe -O2 -I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/
include -I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/include --sysroot=/home
/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/ -isysroot /home/johan/buildroot/outpu
t/build/staging_dir -mabi=apcs-gnu -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_
FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 conftest.c >&5
ccache: failed to create /ccache-2.4/cache (No such file or directory)

configure:1722: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
#line 1700 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

int
main ()
{

;
return 0;
}
configure:1745: error: C compiler cannot create executables

So the problem is ccache somehow thinking it should write cache files to
/ccache-2.4.

Try disabling ccache and rebuild everything (rm -rf output; make).

[Sagaert Johan]

Hi

Afrer disabling the cache it worked.

Maybe the cache path was wrong, i used my .config file from the 2009.08
version
from the config file i read

BR2_CCACHE_DIR="$(TOOLCHAIN_DIR)/ccache-$(CCACHE_VER)/cache"

So i assume TOOLCHAIN_DIR is empty.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Peter Korsgaard [mailto:jacmet-***@public.gmane.org] Namens Peter Korsgaard
Verzonden: woensdag 21 oktober 2009 14:38
Aan: Sagaert Johan; buildroot-2zL2ArBv0bUdnm+***@public.gmane.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Buildroot] building toolchain fails
Sagaert> Peter

Sagaert> See attachement concerning my debian

Sagaert> I will now look what i can do on the ubuntu machine.

Please keep discussion on the mailing list instead of mailing me directly,
so others can also follow.

Looking at your config.log makes the problem pretty obvious:

configure:1716: checking for C compiler default output
configure:1719:
/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux
-uclibc-gcc -Os -pipe -O2
-I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/
include -I/home/johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/include
--sysroot=/home /johan/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/ -isysroot
/home/johan/buildroot/outpu t/build/staging_dir -mabi=apcs-gnu
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_
FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 conftest.c >&5
ccache: failed to create /ccache-2.4/cache (No such file or directory)

configure:1722: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
#line 1700 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

int
main ()
{

;
return 0;
}
configure:1745: error: C compiler cannot create executables

So the problem is ccache somehow thinking it should write cache files to
/ccache-2.4.

Try disabling ccache and rebuild everything (rm -rf output; make).

--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Peter Korsgaard]

Sagaert> Hi

Sagaert> Afrer disabling the cache it worked.

Sagaert> Maybe the cache path was wrong, i used my .config file from the 2009.08
Sagaert> version
Sagaert> from the config file i read

Sagaert> BR2_CCACHE_DIR="$(TOOLCHAIN_DIR)/ccache-$(CCACHE_VER)/cache"

Sagaert> So i assume TOOLCHAIN_DIR is empty.

Hmm, odd - TOOLCHAIN_DIR is set to BASE_DIR/toolchain, where BASE_DIR is
normally "output".