Slackware 13.37 and Openembedded

Posted 06-04-2012 at 01:21 AM by D1ver
Updated 06-06-2012 at 07:48 PM by D1ver

Openembedded is a handy way to crosscompile software for embedded devices. After spending most of the day struggling to get the initial build process to complete on Slackware I figured I'd make a post here in the hopes of saving someone some time in the future.

Required Software:
OE lists the required software at http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Required_software
I found the following packages at slackbuilds.org
- help2man
- chrpath
and built texinfo using src2pkg with the source from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/

The biggest showstopper, was eglibc-initial.12.bb failing to build with the following error

Code:

RROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
ERROR: Build of /home/neil/arm/openembedded/recipes/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.12.bb do_install failed
ERROR: Task 2 (/home/neil/arm/openembedded/recipes/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.12.bb, do_install) failed with 256
ERROR: '/home/neil/arm/openembedded/recipes/eglibc/eglibc-initial_2.12.bb' failed
ERROR: Function do_install failed

Code:

| /home/neil/arm/openembedded/bin/install -c -m 644 include/limits.h /usr/include/limits.h
| install: cannot remove `/usr/include/limits.h': Permission denied

There was a few mailing list entries with similar problems with no solutions. Eventually I found the answer in some obscure forum reply.

Make version 3.82 has an unspecified bug which causes the build to fail. Changing to Make v 3.81 fixes this problem and openembedded builds fine.

I got the source and slackbuild for Make 3.81 from my favorite slackware mirror and compiled a package on 13.37. Then I used upgradepkg to downgrade from the stock 3.82 to 3.81. Hopefully there are no adverse effects on my system, but openembedded is now happy.

Edit: There is a package for Make 3.81 included in the /extra directory of Slackware 13.37

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	this is extremely helpful! I am dealing with yocto these days, and come across this problem concernig make on a debian forum. I will soon be attempting to compile yocto on slack 14 - since it uses make v3.82 I suspect the error will not be debugged in this version.
	Posted 06-07-2013 at 09:07 AM by nass