[Buildroot] ARM cross compiler path error "no such file or directory"

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:34:27 +0100, Mark Jackson wrote:

> I can successfully compile "beaglebone_defconfig".
> 
> $ make clean
> $ make beaglebone_defconfig
> $ make
> 
> And in output/host/usr/bin, I can find all the "arm-linux-xyz" cross compiler tools (gcc, strings, strip, etc).
> 
> But when I try to use these to compile my own code, I get an error as follows:-
> 
> $ which arm-linux-gcc
> /home/mpfj/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc
> $ arm-linux-gcc
> /home/mpfj/buildroot/output/usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc.br_real: No such file or directory
> 
> Quite correctly, "output/usr/bin" doesn't exist ... the files are in "output/host/usr/bin"
> 
> arm-linux-gcc is just a symlink to toolchain-wrapper, so toolchain-wrapper seems to be pointing to the wrong directory!!
> 
> I'm sure was working yesterday, but I did a "git pull" this morning, so it may be something quite recent ??

We pushed some changes over the last few days that moved everything in
$(HOST_DIR)/usr up into $(HOST_DIR), so it is possible that there are
some regressions.

Arnout? :-)

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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