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

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:07:45AM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> 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.

Did you try building the toolchain with ptxdist-2018.09.0 (with -f)? Does
it work?

> > @ PTX: This might be worth mentioning in the building instructions or
> > at a similar place.

Hmm, we don't really have a place to put version specific notes. And the
generic build instructions are out of date too... :-/.

> 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?

Well, we could start fixing this in a stable branch. Any volunteers? :-)
And maybe a source only release. That's easy. Building all the binary
toolchains it what makes a release a lot of work.

Michael

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