Build problem

[Steve Strobel]

Welcome to the crowd :(  There are several of us on this list that have run into the build_alias problem when compiling RTEMS with Cygwin.  We have found various things to help, but as far as I know, no one has nailed down the exact problem or a way to consistently fix it.  You can check the archive for details, but the following are some of the things that have been mentioned as workarounds:

- Rebooting right before starting a build
- Running no unnecessary software during it
- Rearranging the order in which the options to "configure" are specified  
- Copying bash to sh
- Disabling any real-time antivirus checking
- Disconnecting from the network

Things that didn't seem to help:
- Doubling the amount of memory in the PC (from 256 to 512MB)

Steve


At 11:58 AM 3/24/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>During a build I get the following error and I can't work out why. I can compile this in exactly the same way 
>on another PC with an identical cygwin and rtems directories and it works fine. Can anyone help?
>
>I have included the output below:
>
>checking for sh-rtems-strip... (cached) sh-rtems-strip
>checking if wanting multiprocessing... no
>configure: creating ./config.status
>configure: configuring in ../../cpukit
>configure: running /bin/bash '/opt/rtems/rtems-4.6.0/c/src/../../cpukit/configure'  '--prefix=/opt/rtems/builds/fu0018' '--host=sh-rtems' '--build=i686-pc-cygwin' '--target=sh-rtem
>s' '--disable-posix' '--disable-networking' '--disable-cxx' '--with-target-subdir=sh-rtems' '--exec-prefix=/opt/rtems/builds/fu0018/sh-rtems' 'build_alias=i686-pc-cygwin' 'host_ali
>as=sh-rtems' 'target_alias=sh-rtems' 'RTEMS_BSP=fu0018' 'RTEMS_CPU_MODEL=sh7145' 'RTEMS_BSP_FAMILY=fu0018' 'CPU_CFLAGS=-m2' 'CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE_V=-O1' 'CFLAGS_DEBUG_V=-O1 -g' '--with-
>project-root=../../' '--enable-rtemsbsp=fu0018'
>   --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=/opt/rtems/rtems-4.6.0/c/src/../../cpukit
>configure: error: invalid variable name: build_alias
>configure: error: /bin/bash '/opt/rtems/rtems-4.6.0/c/src/../../cpukit/configure' failed for ../../cpukit
>make[2]: *** [fu0018] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/rtems/builds/temp/build-fu0018/sh-rtems/c'
>make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/rtems/builds/temp/build-fu0018/sh-rtems/c'
>make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>Making all in make
>make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/rtems/builds/temp/build-fu0018/make'
>Making all in custom
>make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/rtems/builds/temp/build-fu0018/make/custom'
>make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/rtems/builds/temp/build-fu0018/make/custom'
>make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/rtems/builds/temp/build-fu0018/make'
>make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/rtems/builds/temp/build-fu0018/make'
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/rtems/builds/temp/build-fu0018/make' 

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