Error while building realview_pbx_a9 BSP with the new build system

[Gedare Bloom]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 10:27 AM Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
> On 03/08/2020 18:25, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 10:17 AM Utkarsh Rai<utkarsh.rai60 at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> When I use the above branch I get the following error on './waf install ' -
> >>
> >> Build failed
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>    File "/home/utkarsh/new_build/rtems/.waf-2.0.20-36f5354d605298f6a89c09e0c7ef6c1d/waflib/Task.py", line 180, in process
> >>      ret=self.run()
> >>    File "/home/utkarsh/new_build/rtems/.waf-2.0.20-36f5354d605298f6a89c09e0c7ef6c1d/waflib/Build.py", line 554, in run
> >>      x.parent.mkdir()
> >>    File "/home/utkarsh/new_build/rtems/.waf-2.0.20-36f5354d605298f6a89c09e0c7ef6c1d/waflib/Node.py", line 179, in mkdir
> >>      self.parent.mkdir()
> >>    File "/home/utkarsh/new_build/rtems/.waf-2.0.20-36f5354d605298f6a89c09e0c7ef6c1d/waflib/Node.py", line 179, in mkdir
> >>      self.parent.mkdir()
> >>    File "/home/utkarsh/new_build/rtems/.waf-2.0.20-36f5354d605298f6a89c09e0c7ef6c1d/waflib/Node.py", line 179, in mkdir
> >>      self.parent.mkdir()
> >>    File "/home/utkarsh/new_build/rtems/.waf-2.0.20-36f5354d605298f6a89c09e0c7ef6c1d/waflib/Node.py", line 179, in mkdir
> >>      self.parent.mkdir()
> >>    File "/home/utkarsh/new_build/rtems/.waf-2.0.20-36f5354d605298f6a89c09e0c7ef6c1d/waflib/Node.py", line 179, in mkdir
> >>      self.parent.mkdir()
> >>    File "/home/utkarsh/new_build/rtems/.waf-2.0.20-36f5354d605298f6a89c09e0c7ef6c1d/waflib/Node.py", line 188, in mkdir
> >>      raise Errors.WafError('Could not create the directory %r'%self)
> >> WafError: Could not create the directory /opt/rtems
> >>
> > Most likely you don't have a /opt/rtems directory, and that is being
> > used as a default prefix for install. Try to set the prefix/install
> > point yourself to a directory you 'own' already.
> >
> > The other option is to create /opt/rtems, and chown to your user, e.g.,
> >
> > sudo mkdir /opt/rtems
> > sudo chown utkarsh:utkarsh /opt/rtems
> >
> > this works fine for single-user *nix development
> >
> I think we should cover this somehow in the documentation. This looks
> like a common issue for someone using this for the first time.

We have something:
https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/start/prefixes.html

But probably that will be skipped by a lot of people looking for a
"Quicker" start.