Error while building realview_pbx_a9 BSP with the new build system

[Sebastian Huber]

On 03/08/2020 18:32, Gedare Bloom wrote:

> 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.
Utkarsh, did look look at some documentation before you started to use 
the new build system?