On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 19:43 -0500, Markus Svilans wrote: > Hi Khem, > > Per your suggestion, I installed gcc-multilib and was able to build > syslinux and core-image-minimal. Wonderful! > > Thank you for having a look at this problem and finding the fix. > > May I suggest that the Ubuntu/Debian section in Yocto Quick Start > documentation > (https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html) > > be updated with this new information? Should I file a bug report to help > this happen? >
Right, this is a known bug with Debian hosts: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5054 I didn't know about gcc-multilib though, thanks for calling that out. Yes this should be added to the qs guide. Scott can you add gcc-multilib to the package prereqs on the qs guide for Ubuntu/Debian? -- Darren > Best regards, > Markus > > > > On 11/03/2013 03:37 PM, Khem Raj wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Markus Svilans <msvil...@aeonyx.ca> wrote: > >> With the help of a friend, have confirmed that 'core-image-minimal' cannot > >> be built with Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit when MACHINE=genericx86-64. Attempted the > >> build on a different machine in a different city, same results (failure to > >> build). > >> > >> Confirmed that 'core-image-minimal' can be successfully built under an lxc > >> and a chroot running Debian Wheezy, on Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit, with > >> MACHINE=genericx86-64. > >> > >> Filed bug 5440 on Yocto Bugzilla. > >> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5440 > >> > > accidentally I was able to reproduce it. So it seems that syslinux > > depends on compiler supporting 32bit+64bit mix > > and it has probes to enquire the compiler for supporting the above. > > Now if you have standard install of ubuntu you > > do not have gcc-multilib installed and hence the problem. > > > > So, I would say the fix is to install gcc-multilib package on > > debian-like systems and something similar for other distros > > > > sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib > > > > and then clean build syslinux-native should get you going > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto