[Buildroot] Encountered error when building ARM toolchain (sed)

[Buildroot] Encountered error when building ARM toolchain (sed)

[Arun Reddy]

Hi everyone,

After successfully doing a build for an x86 platform, I am now attempting to
build for an ARM platform. After about half an hour into the build process I
encountered the error:

/root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed -i -e
's,^EXTRA_VERSION=.*,EXTRA_VERSION==""."4""",g'
/root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed: no input files

Does anyone happen to know what this error is referring to? I understand
that the editor sed requires an input stream where it performs text
transformations, but why am I getting "no input files" here? Is the syntax
for the line above that's being passed for sed not correct? Any tips on how
to fix this? Thanks a lot for looking into this.
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[Buildroot] Encountered error when building ARM toolchain (sed)

[Arun Reddy]

Sorry to bump my own thread, but I just want to include some more questions
that hopefully someone can take a look at. I went into the sed package
directory and found a script called sedcheck.sh. It makes use of a script
called check-host-sed.sh, which will determine whether to build or use a sed
host binary. Can someone who has used or even created this script tell me
what this does?

Can it somehow solve my problem shown above? Also, within the same package
directory there is a sed.mk file. Does this file need to be edited for the
ARM build to work? I am quite stuck on how to proceed with getting through
this problem so any hint would help. Thanks a lot!

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Arun Reddy <reddyac@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> After successfully doing a build for an x86 platform, I am now attempting
> to build for an ARM platform. After about half an hour into the build
> process I encountered the error:
>
> /root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed -i -e
> 's,^EXTRA_VERSION=.*,EXTRA_VERSION==""."4""",g'
> /root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed: no input files
>
> Does anyone happen to know what this error is referring to? I understand
> that the editor sed requires an input stream where it performs text
> transformations, but why am I getting "no input files" here? Is the syntax
> for the line above that's being passed for sed not correct? Any tips on how
> to fix this? Thanks a lot for looking into this.
>
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[Buildroot] Encountered error when building ARM toolchain (sed)

[John Voltz]

Looks to me like the kernel build is where it is failing, I think it's
trying to sed in the EXTRA_VERSION to your kernel makefile and dropped the
makefile path. I would complain to Ulf on the mailing list since he takes
care of most of the ARM stuff. Tell him what kernel version you are building
for and maybe attach your buildroot .config file. It sounds like some bug in
the buildroot scripts to me.

John

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:32 PM, John Voltz <john.voltz@gmail.com> wrote:

> What package is the build failing at? look at that package's makefile in
> package/your-pkg/your-pkg.mk to see if there is a bogus sed command in
> there.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Arun Reddy <reddyac@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry to bump my own thread, but I just want to include some more
>> questions that hopefully someone can take a look at. I went into the sed
>> package directory and found a script called sedcheck.sh. It makes use of a
>> script called check-host-sed.sh, which will determine whether to build or
>> use a sed host binary. Can someone who has used or even created this script
>> tell me what this does?
>>
>> Can it somehow solve my problem shown above? Also, within the same package
>> directory there is a sed.mk file. Does this file need to be edited for
>> the ARM build to work? I am quite stuck on how to proceed with getting
>> through this problem so any hint would help. Thanks a lot!
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Arun Reddy <reddyac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> After successfully doing a build for an x86 platform, I am now attempting
>>> to build for an ARM platform. After about half an hour into the build
>>> process I encountered the error:
>>>
>>> /root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed -i -e
>>> 's,^EXTRA_VERSION=.*,EXTRA_VERSION==""."4""",g'
>>> /root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed: no input files
>>>
>>> Does anyone happen to know what this error is referring to? I understand
>>> that the editor sed requires an input stream where it performs text
>>> transformations, but why am I getting "no input files" here? Is the syntax
>>> for the line above that's being passed for sed not correct? Any tips on how
>>> to fix this? Thanks a lot for looking into this.
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> buildroot at uclibc.org
>> http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
>>
>
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[Buildroot] Encountered error when building ARM toolchain (sed)

[Arun Reddy]

Hi John

I believe you are correct in that the problem occurs at the kernel build. I
am obtaining the error at the point where the build process states:

# let the user create his/her own config

Then it goes through and looks at the .config file in
/root/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/linux-2.6.24/.config, and I get the
error shortly after.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2812/sederroroo7.jpg

I will certainly contact Ulf and let him know of this problem. Thank you for
your help!

Arun

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:36 AM, John Voltz <john.voltz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks to me like the kernel build is where it is failing, I think it's
> trying to sed in the EXTRA_VERSION to your kernel makefile and dropped the
> makefile path. I would complain to Ulf on the mailing list since he takes
> care of most of the ARM stuff. Tell him what kernel version you are building
> for and maybe attach your buildroot .config file. It sounds like some bug in
> the buildroot scripts to me.
>
> John
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:32 PM, John Voltz <john.voltz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What package is the build failing at? look at that package's makefile in
>> package/your-pkg/your-pkg.mk to see if there is a bogus sed command in
>> there.
>>
>> John
>>
>>  On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Arun Reddy <reddyac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Sorry to bump my own thread, but I just want to include some more
>>> questions that hopefully someone can take a look at. I went into the sed
>>> package directory and found a script called sedcheck.sh. It makes use of a
>>> script called check-host-sed.sh, which will determine whether to build or
>>> use a sed host binary. Can someone who has used or even created this script
>>> tell me what this does?
>>>
>>> Can it somehow solve my problem shown above? Also, within the same
>>> package directory there is a sed.mk file. Does this file need to be
>>> edited for the ARM build to work? I am quite stuck on how to proceed with
>>> getting through this problem so any hint would help. Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Arun Reddy <reddyac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> After successfully doing a build for an x86 platform, I am now
>>>> attempting to build for an ARM platform. After about half an hour into the
>>>> build process I encountered the error:
>>>>
>>>> /root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed -i -e
>>>> 's,^EXTRA_VERSION=.*,EXTRA_VERSION==""."4""",g'
>>>> /root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed: no input files
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone happen to know what this error is referring to? I understand
>>>> that the editor sed requires an input stream where it performs text
>>>> transformations, but why am I getting "no input files" here? Is the syntax
>>>> for the line above that's being passed for sed not correct? Any tips on how
>>>> to fix this? Thanks a lot for looking into this.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> buildroot mailing list
>>> buildroot at uclibc.org
>>> http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
>>>
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> buildroot mailing list
> buildroot at uclibc.org
> http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
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[Buildroot] Encountered error when building ARM toolchain (sed)

[Ulf Samuelsson]

>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> After successfully doing a build for an x86 platform, I am now attempting
>> to build for an ARM platform. After about half an hour into the build
>> process I encountered the error:
>>
>> /root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed -i -e
>> 's,^EXTRA_VERSION=.*,EXTRA_VERSION==""."4""",g'
>> /root/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin/sed: no input files
>>
>> Does anyone happen to know what this error is referring to? I understand
>> that the editor sed requires an input stream where it performs text
>> transformations, but why am I getting "no input files" here? Is the syntax
>> for the line above that's being passed for sed not correct? Any tips on how
>> to fix this? Thanks a lot for looking into this.
>>
>

Your problem is because you did not specify a valid linux configuration file.
This means that BR2_<xxx>_KCONFIG is empty and 
"sed  <script> $(BR2_<xxx>_KCONFIG)" becomes 
"sed  <script>"

Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson