Trouble with Quick Start build on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu

[Chris Johns]

On 14/4/18 11:19 am, Christopher Etzkorn wrote:
> I have attempted multiple times to build the SPARC toolchain on both 
> CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04.4 in VirtualBox, and I keep hitting a snag at 
> this point:
> 
> # ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --prefix=$HOME/development/rtems/5 
> 5/rtems-sparc
> 
> The build always fails at
> 
> config: tools/rtems-gcc-7.3.0-newlib.3.0.0.cfg
> package: sparc-rtems5-gcc-7.3.0-newlib-3.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
> building: sparc-rtems5-gcc-7.3.0-newlib-3.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
> _
> 
> 
> And I'm ultimately forced to kill the process.
> 

What does the log say?

Did the RSB create an RSB error report?

You can open another terminal and follow the log to see if it is still 
running (see 'tail -f').

> 
> In CentOS, I have successfully installed the 4.13 version of texinfo.  
> (Ignoring Ubuntu for now)
> 
> I also installed ncurses-devel, and I successfully followed this 
> instruction:
> 
> # yum install autoconf automake binutils gcc gcc-c++ gdb make patch 
> \bison flex xz unzip ncurses-devel texinfo zlib-devel python-devel git
> 
> which is listed under 3.1.2. CentOS on the RSB page.
> 
> (Most of which I covered earlier on by running #yum group install 
> "Development Tools" and by installing texinfo separately).
> 
> Nada.
> 
> I have also looked into making this change, MAKEINFO=true, inside the 
> .cfg files based on the information contained in the following link, but 
> I have not yet done so.  (Found in a recent post in the user mailing list):
> 
> https://github.com/mdavidsaver/rsb/commit/f0bf5876ad96417db07a876845fbf833b10ced65
> 

This should be resolved. The change may be different as another more 
supported method was used.

> 
> To cover my bases and do this as neatly as possible, I have deleted 
> CentOS 7, recreated it, and run the following commands in this order:
> 
> $ su
> # dhclient
> # yum install git
> # yum install wget
> # yum group install "Development Tools"
> # yum install autoconf automake binutils gcc gcc-c++ gdb make patch \ 
> bison flex xz unzip ncurses-devel zlib-devel python-devel git
> 
> */ I removed texinfo from the previous command and installed it 
> separately following the instructions for 4.13 /*
> 
> # cd ~
> # mkdir -p Downloads
> # cd Downloads
> # wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.tar.gz
> # tar -xzf texinfo-4.13.tar.gz
> # cd texinfo-4.13
> # ./configure --prefix=$HOME/development/texinfo-4.13
> # make
> # make install
> # export PATH=$HOME/development/texinfo-4.13/bin:$PATH
> 
> # cd
> # mkdir -p development/rtems/rsb
> # cd development/rtems/rsb
> # git clone git://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder.git 
> <http://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder.git>
> # cd rtems-source-builder
> # cd rtems
> #../source-builder/sb-set-builder --prefix=$HOME/development/rtems/5 
> 5/rtems-sparc
> 
> 
> Aaaaannnd, fail....
> 

A fail will have an error. Please inspect the log and see what the build 
was doing and why it failed.

> 
> The output is in a slightly different order this time, but it's still 
> crashing at
> 
> building: sparc-rtems5-gcc-7.3.0-newlib-3.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
> 
> 
> ....At this point, I'm assuming I'm missing something completely asinine....
> 

Building in a VM can be slow.

Chris