I'm using a pre-compiled toolchain to build my distro. When I execute "bitbake core-image-minimal", things fail in eglibc.
DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'bit-32', 'arm-common', 'common-linux', 'common-glibc', 'arm-linux', 'arm-linux-gnueabi', 'common'] ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (see /home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/armv7-vfp-marvell-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.15-r7+svnr17386/temp/log.do_configure.14611 for further information) NOTE: Running /home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/armv7-vfp-marvell-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.15-r7+svnr17386/eglibc-2_15/libc/configure --build=x86_64-linux --host=arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr --exec_prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --sharedstatedir=/com --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/usr/include --oldincludedir=/usr/include --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --disable-silent-rules --disable-dependency-tracking --with-libtool-sysroot=/home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/qemuarmada-xp --enable-kernel=2.6.16 --without-cvs --disable-profile --disable-debug --without-gd --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-add-ons=ports,nptl,libidn,ports --with-headers=/home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/qemuarmada-xp/usr/include --without-selinux checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi checking for arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc... arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc -march=armv7 -fno-tree-vectorize -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=softfp -mtune=arm7 --sysroot=/home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/qemuarmada-xp-tcbootstrap checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/armv7-vfp-marvell-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.15-r7+svnr17386/build-arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. ERROR: oe_runconf failed I can't tell where this "cannot compute suffix of object files" is coming from. Oddly, if I execute the above configure command interactively, it works just fine. Any ideas for me? dallas@bertha:~/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build$ /home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/armv7-vfp-marvell-linux-gnueabi/eglibc-2.15-r7+svnr17386/eglibc-2_15/libc/configure --build=x86_64-linux --host=arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr --exec_prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --sharedstatedir=/com --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/usr/include --oldincludedir=/usr/include --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --disable-silent-rules --disable-dependency-tracking --with-libtool-sysroot=/home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/qemuarmada-xp --enable-kernel=2.6.16 --without-cvs --disable-profile --disable-debug --without-gd --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-add-ons=ports,nptl,libidn,ports --with-headers=/home/dallas/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/qemuarmada-xp/usr/include --without-selinux checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi checking for arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc... arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for gcc... gcc checking how to run the C preprocessor... arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc -E checking for arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-g++... arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-g++ accepts -g... yes checking add-on ports for preconfigure fragments... alpha am33 arm Found compiler is configured for armv7 hppa m68k mips powerpc tile configure: running configure fragment for add-on nptl configure: running configure fragment for add-on libidn checking add-on ports for preconfigure fragments... alpha am33 arm Found compiler is configured for armv7 hppa m68k mips powerpc tile checking for assembler gnu_indirect_function symbol type support... yes checking whether .text pseudo-op must be used... yes checking for assembler global-symbol directive... .globl checking for assembler .type directive prefix... % checking sysdep dirs... ports/sysdeps/arm/elf ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/eabi/nptl ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/eabi ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux nptl/sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common sysdeps/unix/mman sysdeps/unix/inet ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/sysv ports/sysdeps/unix/arm ports/sysdeps/unix nptl/sysdeps/unix sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix ports/sysdeps/arm/eabi/armv7 ports/sysdeps/arm/eabi/armv6t2 ports/sysdeps/arm/eabi ports/sysdeps/arm/fpu ports/sysdeps/arm/nptl ports/sysdeps/arm sysdeps/wordsize-32 sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/generic/elf sysdeps/generic checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether /opt/armv7-marvell-linux-gnueabi-softfp/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/../../../../arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/as is GNU as... yes checking whether /opt/armv7-marvell-linux-gnueabi-softfp/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/../../../../arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld is GNU ld... yes checking for /opt/armv7-marvell-linux-gnueabi-softfp/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/../../../../arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/as... /opt/armv7-marvell-linux-gnueabi-softfp/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/../../../../arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/as checking version of /opt/armv7-marvell-linux-gnueabi-softfp/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/../../../../arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/as... 2.20.51.0.7.20100318, ok checking for /opt/armv7-marvell-linux-gnueabi-softfp/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/../../../../arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld... /opt/armv7-marvell-linux-gnueabi-softfp/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/../../../../arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld checking version of /opt/armv7-marvell-linux-gnueabi-softfp/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/4.4.5/../../../../arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld... 2.20.51.0.7.20100318, ok checking for pwd... /bin/pwd checking for arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc... (cached) arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc checking version of arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc... 4.4.5, ok checking for gnumake... no checking for gmake... no checking for make... make checking version of make... 3.81, ok checking for gnumsgfmt... no checking for gmsgfmt... no checking for msgfmt... no checking for makeinfo... makeinfo checking version of makeinfo... 4.13, ok checking for sed... sed checking version of sed... 4.2.1, ok checking for arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-readelf... arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-readelf checking for autoconf... no configure: WARNING: *** These auxiliary programs are missing or incompatible versions: msgfmt autoconf *** some features will be disabled. *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable... ok checking whether GCC supports -static-libgcc... -static-libgcc checking for bash... /bin/bash checking for gawk... gawk checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for install-info... /usr/bin/install-info checking for bison... no checking for signed size_t type... no checking for libc-friendly stddef.h... yes checking whether we need to use -P to assemble .S files... no checking for .set assembler directive... yes checking for assembler gnu_unique_object symbol type... yes checking for .symver assembler directive... yes checking for ld --version-script... yes checking for .previous assembler directive... yes checking for .protected and .hidden assembler directive... yes checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... yes checking for broken __attribute__((visibility()))... no checking for broken __attribute__((alias()))... no checking whether to put _rtld_local into .sdata section... no checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support... yes checking whether to use .ctors/.dtors header and trailer... no checking for libunwind-support in compiler... no checking for -z nodelete option... yes checking for -z nodlopen option... yes checking for -z initfirst option... yes configure: WARNING: missing architecture parameter to check for working -z relro checking for -Bgroup option... yes checking for libgcc_s suffix... checking for --as-needed option... yes checking whether --noexecstack is desirable for .S files... yes checking for -z combreloc... yes checking for -z execstack... yes checking for --hash-style option... yes checking for sufficient default -shared layout... no checking linker output format... unknown checking for -fno-toplevel-reorder -fno-section-anchors... yes checking for -fstack-protector... no checking for -fgnu89-inline... yes checking whether cc puts quotes around section names... no checking for assembler .weak directive... yes checking whether CFI directives are supported... yes checking for ld --no-whole-archive... yes checking for gcc -fexceptions... yes checking for __builtin_expect... yes checking for __builtin_memset... no checking for redirection of built-in functions... yes checking for __thread... yes checking for tls_model attribute... yes checking for libgd... no checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking size of long double... 8 running configure fragment for ports/sysdeps/arm/elf checking for ARM TLS support... yes running configure fragment for ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/eabi/nptl running configure fragment for ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/eabi running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/pthread running configure fragment for sysdeps/pthread running configure fragment for sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... (cached) /bin/grep checking for egrep... (cached) /bin/grep -E checking installed Linux kernel header files... 2.0.10 or later checking for kernel header at least 2.6.16... ok running configure fragment for ports/sysdeps/arm checking whether the CFI directive .cfi_sections is supported... yes checking for old glibc 2.0.x headers... no checking whether -fPIC is default... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating config.make config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing default commands dallas@bertha:~/git-repos/projects/yocto/poky/build$ echo $? 0 Perhaps the problem has something to do with incompatible versions of the msgfmt autoconf on my host system which is Debian squeeze. _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto