I had similar issue, but in my case it wasn't even showing it's /bin/cp having problems, actually it was failing like this with tar and only one argument :/
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-January/035089.html On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Krishna Dwivedi < krishna.dwiv...@aricent.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I am trying on fedora 18 and I am continuously running into this issue. > > Regards, > Krishna > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 4:57 PM > To: Krishna Dwivedi > Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org > Subject: Re: [yocto] Arguement list too big error in bitbake > meta-toolchain for MIPS architechture-Gentle Reminder > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Krishna Dwivedi wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to build recipe meta-toolchain for MIPS architecture but > > running into errors. Can anyone please let me know, if I am missing > > anything here or what could be root cause of this and how can I fix > > it. I have followed these steps: > > > > 1)In WORKDIR/build/conf/local.conf-I selected MACHINE ?= "qemumips" for > mips architechture. > > > > 2)source oe-init-build-env. > > > 3)bitbake meta-toolchain. > > > > In third step,I am running into these errors: > > > > NOTE: recipe nativesdk-gettext-0.18.2-r0: task do_configure: Started > > > > ERROR: Error executing a python function in > > /home/netlogic/yocto/poky/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-locale_2.17.bb > : > > > > CalledProcessError: Command 'cp > > -al/home/netlogic/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/mips32-poky-linux/eglibc-l > > ocale/2.17-r0/packages-sp > > lit/*/home/netlogic/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/mips32-poky-linux/eglibc > > -locale/2.17-r0/sstate-buil d-package//packages-split' returned > > non-zero exit status 126 with output /bin/sh: /bin/cp: > > Argument list too long > > ... snip ... > > i just did the above on my ubuntu system -- qemumips and "bitbake > meta-toolchain" -- and i can see that step running right now among 4 > running tasks: > > 0: nativesdk-gettext-0.18.2-r0 do_configure (pid 6695) > > man, sure seems to be taking a while, while other tasks complete and are > replaced by new tasks. oh, wait, it just completed, replaced by: > > 2: nativesdk-gettext-0.18.2-r0 do_compile (pid 12727) > > so the configure step seems to have succeeded. in other words, works for > me. and: > > $ ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 22 2012 /bin/sh -> bash $ > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > > > > > =============================================================================== > Please refer to http://www.aricent.com/legal/email_disclaimer.html > for important disclosures regarding this electronic communication. > > =============================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >
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