Re: [ptxdist] [ANNOUNCE] OSELAS.Toolchain() 2018.02.0 released - host-m4 build error on Ubuntu 18.10

[Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 05:57:53PM +0200, Andreas Pretzsch wrote:
> During build of the toolchain (at least in configs arm-v7a-linux-
> gnueabihf, arm-v7m-eabi, arm-v7em-eabihf) on an Ubuntu 18.10-beta host,
> build stopped here with an host-m4 error:
> fseeko.c: In function 'rpl_fseeko':
> fseeko.c:110:4: error: #error "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform! Look at the code in fseeko.c, then report this to bug-gnulib."
>    #error "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform! Look at the code in fseeko.c, then report this to bug-gnulib."
>     ^~~~~
>   GEN      charset.alias
> make[4]: *** [Makefile:1910: fseeko.o] Error 1
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>   CC       vasprintf.o
> freadahead.c: In function 'freadahead':
> freadahead.c:92:3: error: #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at the definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report this to bug-gnulib."
>   #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at the definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report this to bug-gnulib."
>    ^~~~~
> make[4]: *** [Makefile:1910: freadahead.o] Error 1
> 
> Reason is the glibc 2.28 on the build host (libc6:amd64 2.28-0ubuntu1).
> Same probably applies to other distributions.
> 
> In up-to-date ptxdist, there is a patch included fixing this issue:
> commit cba1e28 "m4/coreutil: add gnulib patches for GLibc-2.28" from
> Rouven Czerwinski, dating 2018-08-23.
> With this, m4 is patched accordingly, and build succeeds.
> 
> The OSELAS.Toolchain-2018.02.0 ptxdist project refers to ptxdist-
> 2018.02.0 by default. Above patch is part of ptxdist-2018.09.0.
> 
> So until there is a revised version of OSELAS.Toolchain, either use
> ptxdist-2018.09.0 or later for building, or include the patch in the
> toolchain project.
> 
> @ PTX: This might be worth mentioning in the building instructions or
> at a similar place.

mol, do you think it is feasible to release a 2018.02.1 toolchain with
the host-m4 (and probably other host-glibc related) patches?

 - Roland
-- 
Roland Hieber                     | r.hieber@pengutronix.de     |
Pengutronix e.K.                  | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim | Phone: +49-5121-206917-5086 |
Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686  | Fax:   +49-5121-206917-5555 |

_______________________________________________
ptxdist mailing list
ptxdist@pengutronix.de