[Buildroot] Is there any chance to compile old buildroot on new distro

[Sasha Yohananov]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Paulius Zaleckas <
paulius.zaleckas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Sasha Yohananov <yohananov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear buildroot experts,
> > For about 2 years I work on some commercial project (access control)
> based
> > on buildroot-2008.11.
> > HW details are:
> > CPU - ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l)
> > Board - Atmel AT91SAM9260-EK
> > Former Host - Fedora 9.
> > Current Host - Fedora 13
> > After some initial tuning it compiled and produced everything that needed
> > (all images) excellently, but recently I was silly enough to upgrade my
> > host's distribution to Fedora 13.
> > Now I'm in trouble, I can't compile it at all. It fails at the beginning
> of
> > the process, I guess the are conflicts between old kernel's headers and
> new
> > glibc definitions.
> > I understand that my buildroot is quite old but unfortunately I have to
> > continue with it for some time.
> > Is there any chance to compile it on new distribution?
> > There are some details of my configuration and new distro tools:
> > uname -a
> > Linux riln-ls 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu May 6 18:27:11 UTC
> 2010
> > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > gcc --version
> > gcc (GCC) 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2)
> > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
> NO
> > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> > gcc -###
> > Using built-in specs.
> > Target: i686-redhat-linux
> > Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
> > --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> > --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
> > --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
> > --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object
> > --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada
> --enable-java-awt=gtk
> > --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre
> > --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode
> > --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib
> > --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch=i686
> > --build=i686-redhat-linux
> > Thread model: posix
> > gcc version 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2) (GCC)
> >
> > /lib/libc.so.6
> > GNU C Library stable release version 2.12.1, by Roland McGrath et al.
> > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> > There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> > PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10).
> > Compiled on a Linux 2.6.34 system on 2010-10-19.
> > Available extensions:
> > The C stubs add-on version 2.1.2.
> > crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
> > GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
> > Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
> > BIND-8.2.3-T5B
> > RT using linux kernel aio
> > libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC
> > For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> > <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.
> >
> > Config and build log files are attached.
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Sasha.
>
> You need a patch for kernel:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=patch;h=d15bd1067b1fcb2b7250d22bc0c7c7fea0b759f7
>



Paulius, thank you a lot for your quick response.

I patched the kernel and then I could proceed up to module-init-tools-3.2.2
compilation.
Now the linker complains on absence of 'c' library.
I'm getting confused, is it standard c library, it is looking for?
Is there any way to fix it?

...

bzcat /home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/dl/module-init-tools-3.2.2.tar.bz2
| tar -C /home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm -xvf -
module-init-tools-3.2.2/
module-init-tools-3.2.2/doc/
module-init-tools-3.2.2/doc/modprobe.conf.sgml
module-init-tools-3.2.2/doc/modules.dep.sgml
module-init-tools-3.2.2/doc/depmod.sgml

....

module-init-tools-3.2.2/modules.dep.5
module-init-tools-3.2.2/depmod.8
module-init-tools-3.2.2/insmod.8
module-init-tools-3.2.2/lsmod.8
module-init-tools-3.2.2/rmmod.8
module-init-tools-3.2.2/modprobe.8
module-init-tools-3.2.2/modinfo.8
toolchain/patch-kernel.sh
/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2
package/module-init-tools \*.patch

Applying module-init-tools.patch using plaintext:
patching file Makefile.in
Hunk #1 succeeded at 616 (offset 3 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 758 with fuzz 2 (offset -2 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 769 (offset -2 lines).

Applying module-init-tools-remove-index.patch using plaintext:
patching file modprobe.c
cp -f package/gnuconfig/config.sub package/gnuconfig/config.guess
/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2
touch
/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2/.source
(cd
/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2;
\
        CC="/usr/lib/ccache/gcc" \
        ./configure \
        --target=arm-linux \
        --host=i386-pc-linux-gnu \
        --build=i386-pc-linux-gnu \
        --sysconfdir=/etc \
        --program-transform-name='' \
    )
checking build system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /usr/lib/ccache/gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether /usr/lib/ccache/gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for /usr/lib/ccache/gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of /usr/lib/ccache/gcc... gcc3
configure: Adding gcc options: -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
touch
/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2/.configured
/usr/bin/make -j2 -C
/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2'
source='lsmod.c' object='lsmod.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/lsmod.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/lsmod.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'lsmod.c' || echo './'`lsmod.c
source='insmod.c' object='insmod.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/insmod.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/insmod.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'insmod.c' || echo './'`insmod.c
source='modprobe.c' object='modprobe.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/modprobe.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/modprobe.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'modprobe.c' || echo './'`modprobe.c
source='zlibsupport.c' object='zlibsupport.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/zlibsupport.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/zlibsupport.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'zlibsupport.c' || echo './'`zlibsupport.c
source='rmmod.c' object='rmmod.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/rmmod.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/rmmod.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'rmmod.c' || echo './'`rmmod.c
source='depmod.c' object='depmod.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/depmod.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/depmod.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'depmod.c' || echo './'`depmod.c
source='moduleops.c' object='moduleops.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/moduleops.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/moduleops.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'moduleops.c' || echo './'`moduleops.c
source='tables.c' object='tables.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/tables.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/tables.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'tables.c' || echo './'`tables.c
source='modinfo.c' object='modinfo.o' libtool=no \
    depfile='.deps/modinfo.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/modinfo.TPo' \
    depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
    /usr/lib/ccache/gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\"
-DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"3.2.2\"  -I. -I.     -g -O2
-Wunused -Wall -c `test -f 'modinfo.c' || echo './'`modinfo.c
modinfo.c: In function ‘main’:
modinfo.c:338: warning: ‘infosize’ may be used uninitialized in this
function
/usr/lib/ccache/gcc  -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall   -o insmod.static -static
insmod.o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [insmod.static] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2'
make: ***
[/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/module-init-tools-3.2.2/depmod]
Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/home/sasha/work/3rdparty/buildroot'



Thank you again, Sasha.
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