Issues with configuring BSP with waf

Sat Mar 13 05:20:22 UTC 2021

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 10:22 PM Ida Delphine <idadelm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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..
>

The source for the documentation is in the rtems-docs for repo. It is
organised into a directory per manual title. You should be able to quickly
find the text. It is ASCII in Rest format. But the things I think are wrong
will be easy edits. At least I hope.

 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 is out of date.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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