Issues with configuring BSP with waf

Sat Mar 13 05:22:00 UTC 2021

Yes. This should be an easy fix!

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, 6:20 am Joel Sherrill, <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 10:22 PM Ida Delphine <idadelm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>
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>  Fri, 12 Mar 2021, 11:58 pm Joel Sherrill, <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>>> 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 is out of date.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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