Issues with configuring BSP with waf

Ida Delphine idadelm at gmail.com
Sat Mar 13 04:22:22 UTC 2021 

Thank you, I finally succeeded :)
And I will love to update the documentation right away so that others won't
struggle like I did. But I'm not sure how to go about it...

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, 11:58 pm Joel Sherrill, <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:55 PM Ida Delphine <idadelm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Please I need some help. Following the GSoC getting started guide(
>> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/start/gsoc.html),everything
>> went well to the point I had to do an offline download. I used this command
>> ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --source-only-download 5/rtems-sparc
>>
>
> This command has a subtle mistake. If you are on the master, it should be
> 6/rtems-sparc.
>
> I see 5 a couple of times at that URL. If you understand that when that
> was written, the
> git master was "headed to 5" and not that the "5 release branch" is cut,
> the git master is
> "headed to 6". That means 5 needs to change to 6 in there.
>
> Also any reference to autoconf/automake and configure with --enable type
> options
> is out of date.
>
> Corrections to documentation are very much appreciated. Please help
> the next traveler avoid stepping in the same potholes.
>
> --joel
>
>
>> Seems like there was a mismatch. I got this error:
>> b-set-builder --source-only-download 5/rtems-sparc
>> RTEMS Source Builder - Set Builder, 6 (5e449fb5c2cb)
>> Build Set: 5/rtems-sparc
>> error: no build set file found: 5/rtems-sparc.bset
>> Build Set: Time 0:00:00.000205
>> Build FAILED
>> I then replaced 5/rtems in the command with 6/rtems and everything
>> worked. I was able to install the suite, build the board support package,
>> and test my BSP though along the way I had to replace "5" with "6" in
>> certain commands. Everything went well until I wanted to prove I can work
>> on RTEMS. I followed the instructions to create my hello application and
>> added the necessary .c files. The problem was when I tried configuring this
>> application using waf with the command:
>>
>> ./waf configure --rtems=$HOME/quick-start/rtems/5 --rtems-bsp=sparc/erc32
>>
>> I got this error:
>> Setting top to                           :
>> /home/idadel/quick-start/app/hello
>> Setting out to                           :
>> /home/idadel/quick-start/app/hello/build
>> RTEMS path is not valid, "/home/idadel/quick-start/rtems/5/share/rtems5"
>> not found.
>> (complete log in /home/idadel/quick-start/app/hello/build/config.log)
>> I thought I showld startover but and work with rtems.git/5 instead of
>> rtems.git/master. Same with rsb. So I got the sources and did a "git
>> checkout"  from the master to the "5" branch. Everything went well with me
>> not not having to change any "5" to "6" in some commands. I didn't make it
>> as far as testing my BSP. I had issues with configuring my BSP with the
>> command:
>>
>> ./waf configure --rtems=$HOME/quick-start/rtems/5 --rtems-bsp=sparc/erc32
>>
>> I got this:
>> bash: ./waf: No such file or directory
>> I'm confused and don't know what I missed or where I went wrong.
>>
>> Ida.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:03 PM Ida Delphine <idadelm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Okay. Thank you :)
>>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, 5:57 pm Gedare Bloom, <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 9:48 AM Ida Delphine <idadelm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you for your response. I am not working on the rtems.git/master
>>>> branch. I'm not using it because earlier I tried downloading sources with
>>>> it but I got this error
>>>> > error: shell macro failed:
>>>> /home/idadel/quick-start/src/rsb/source-builder/sb/rtems-build-dep -c gcc
>>>> -l : 2: error: no library (-l) provided
>>>> > So I decided to use the other alternative(get the sources from
>>>> releases)
>>>> >
>>>> > Since I'm a GSoC applicant should I wait till the issue at the master
>>>> branch is resolved?
>>>> >
>>>> Yes, that issue has been resolved so please try again. Hopefully,
>>>> things work a bit better. We try not to break things, but unexpected
>>>> problems come up from time to time, especially based on host OS
>>>> dependencies.
>>>>
>>>> > Cheers,
>>>> > Ida.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 4:18 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 7:33 AM Ida Delphine <idadelm at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Hello everyone,
>>>> >> > Was following the quick build documentation and had issues around
>>>> where I have to do a manual BSP build.  In the last step of configuring the
>>>> BSP, I ran this command:
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > ./waf configure --prefix=$HOME/quick-start/rtems/5
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> Are you working on rtems.git/master branch or /5 branch? Note that
>>>> you
>>>> >> need to be sure to use a consistent compiler toolchain based on the
>>>> >> version of RTEMS that you use.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> In rtems/5 branch we don't have waf support integrated yet. The
>>>> >> upgrade to waf is happening currently on the master branch, which
>>>> will
>>>> >> eventually become the RTEMS version 6 release.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> For GSoC students we expect development to happen on the development
>>>> >> head and not a release, so please make sure that you have the
>>>> >> toolchain built from rtems-source-builder.git/master and the rtems
>>>> >> source tree from rtems.git/master.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > It didn't produce the expected output. I instead got:
>>>> >> > bash: ./waf: No such file or directory
>>>> >> > As a result I downloaded it with the command:
>>>> >> > curl https://waf.io/waf-2.0.19 > waf
>>>> >>
>>>> >> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/waf
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Currently, the waf-based build of rtems only supports "in tree"
>>>> >> builds, which means you need to run waf from within the rtems.git/
>>>> >> root of your source. This is a limitation of the waf build.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> FWIW, waf build improvements could also fall under GSoC effort,
>>>> >> although no one has written it up as a task yet. It would be mostly
>>>> >> Python.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > I ran  the last command to configure the BSP again but still did
>>>> not get the expected  output. I got this rather:
>>>> >> > Waf: Run from a folder containing a 'wscript' file (or try -h for
>>>> the generic options)
>>>> >> > Please how do I fix this? What am I missing?
>>>> >> > I have tried looking for solutions but to no avail.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> Sometimes the solutions only exist inside other people's heads, so
>>>> >> asking questions is encouraged.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > Thanks,
>>>> >> > Ida.
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