#36 bitbake gumstix-basic-image fails

[Josh]

On Ubuntu 9.10, following the instructions provided at "http://www.gumstix.net/Setup-and-Programming/view/Getting-started/Setting-up-a-build-environment/111.html" building a basic image fails. I will attempt to include the relevant details from the output.

Failure occurs during "Running task 104 of 1391 (ID: 314, /home/.../packages/binutils/binutils-cross_2.18.bb, do_compile)"
The error says "ERROR: function do_compile failed"

From the log, it appears that a number of make tasks have completed, up until the following:

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/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile ccache gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd -I. -I. -I/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd -I/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd/../include -isystem/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/include -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -isystem/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/include -Os -c -o elf32-arm.lo /home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-arm.c
| libtool: compile: ccache gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd -I. -I. -I/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd -I/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd/../include -isystem/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/include -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -isystem/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/staging/i686-linux/include -Os -c /home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-arm.c -o elf32-arm.o
| cc1: warnings being treated as errors
| /home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-arm.c: In function 'find_thumb_glue':
| /home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-arm.c:2524: error: ignoring return value of 'asprintf', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
| /home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-arm.c: In function 'find_arm_glue':
| /home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-arm.c:2557: error: ignoring return value of 'asprintf', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
| make[4]: *** [elf32-arm.lo] Error 1
| make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/build.i686-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/bfd'
| make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/build.i686-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/bfd'
| make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/build.i686-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/bfd'
| make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/josh/Codes/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r1/binutils-2.18/build.i686-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi'
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| FATAL: oe_runmake failed
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[Josh]

I think this may be due to using a newer version of GCC than is intended for compilation. I have version 4.4.1 installed with Ubuntu. Which version should I have for use with the gumstix openembedded?

[Josh]

I managed to get the build system to build the basic image by chrooting the gutsy distribution (7.10). It's an ugly solution but it works. I added a page to the user wiki describing how to do this.