[Buildroot] Buildroot-2.18.11 fails?

[Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>]

Hello scssijon,

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:07:53 +1100, scsijon <scsijon@lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:

> On 13/02/19 06:19, Peter Seiderer wrote:
> > Hello scsijon,
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:56:32 +1100, scsijon <scsijon@lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:
> >   
> >> no, same result and point of failure, i'm going to move it across to one
> >> of my test machines with a later Puppy called Easy and see what happens,
> >> I can containerize it on that.  

Using Puppy seems to be one of the problems, searching for Pupply reveals that
all is run as 'root user, which is not the recommended way to run buildroot...

> > 
> > Thanks for feedback (and please keep the buildroot mailing list in CC)...
> >   
> 
> Hi, thought I  had, sorry must have hit the wrong button.
> 
> No, although Easy, both in the container and outside it build, it's got 
> gcc6.3.0, i'm now failing at host-e2fsprogs-1.44.4 with some parts 
> getting built ok and a number of internal makefile not being correctly 
> modified?built in the first place with wrong data at the MKDIR_P line in 
> only some, causing it to stop.

Side effect of running as root or filesystem/memory corruption on your host....

> 
> I shall leave it for now as i'm out of free time, but will come back to 
> it in a week or two. I will admit, i'm more interested in why only some 
> of the Makefiles are right/wrong than anything else though. I shall open 
> a raw copy of the package and see if it needs a patch.

None of the Makefiles should be wrong....again filesystem/memory corruption on your host....

Regards,
Peter

> 
> regards to all
> 
> >>
> >> I'll let you know what happens, however the errors do make me thing
> >> something is wrong with the source package.  
> > 
> > ...but builds on many different machined, see e.g. the
> > autobuilder results...., at least resort try to downgrade the
> > selected compiler...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Peter
> >   
> >>
> >>
> >> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Buildroot-2.18.11 fails?
> >> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:20:51 +1100
> >> From: scsijon <scsijon@lamiaworks.com.au>
> >> To: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
> >>
> >> Hi, mine is a Puppy Linux variety called Quirky Xerus64, a cross of
> >> Puppy linux built with ubuntu-xenial(, the normal way we build things in
> >> the puppy world), and yes it uses gcc 5.4.0, libc-2.23 and libc6-2.23.
> >>
> >> But what's this about "make savedefconfig", it's not in the listed build
> >> steps in the docs or quickbuild steps in the readme? Maybe that's my
> >> problem.
> >>
> >> On 11/02/19 02:09, Peter Seiderer wrote:  
> >>> Hello scsijon,
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:37:07 +1100, scsijon <scsijon@lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>> On 10/02/19 18:14, Peter Seiderer wrote:  
> >>>>> Hello scsijon,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 15:20:45 +1100, scsijon <scsijon@lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>> I thought i'd try it after so many years.
> >>>>>> I thought i'd try the last complete version before trying a snapshot.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, what I did was to download and unpacked the 2018.11 package from
> >>>>>> your site.  
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 2018.11.2, 2018.11.1 or 2018.11?
> >>>>>         
> >>>> buildroot-2018.11.tar.gz, didn't see the others on the site I was
> >>>> directed too from your main page at the time. However found 2018.11.2 on
> >>>> the git site so will have a go with that tonight.  
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Went into make menuconfig and changed (to match what I am use to working  
> >>>>>> with)>  
> >>>>>> target Architecture to x86_64;
> >>>>>> toolchain to glibc;
> >>>>>> gcc version to 8.x;
> >>>>>> linux kernel to 4.18 and added a defcon name;
> >>>>>> exited.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> make source (to download the packages required so I could build offline);
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> make.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> All went well until host-gcc-final-8.2.0 where it errored, failed and
> >>>>>> exited.  
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Should not happen ;-), mind to share your .config/defconfig file?
> >>>>>         
> >>>> Hope this is what you want, attached, couldn't send a . file so renamed
> >>>> it, ignore the undotted.  
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the .config file, after 'make savedefconfig' resulted in the follwing (short)
> >>> defconfig file:
> >>>
> >>> BR2_x86_64=y
> >>> BR2_JLEVEL=1
> >>> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC=y
> >>> BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_4_18=y
> >>> BR2_GCC_VERSION_8_X=y
> >>> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
> >>> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="dfgh"
> >>>
> >>> Could not reproduce your problem here locally, on which host system do you
> >>> run your build (mine is openSUSE Tumbleweed with gcc-8.2.1 and libc-2.27,
> >>> yours seem to be a gcc-5.x)?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Peter
> >>>      
> >>>>     
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> Peter
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Before I consider proceeding further, could I have some help and advice
> >>>>>> with this please. I would have thought this should have been ok.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have attached the relevant section of the log file.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> thanks
> >>>>>> scsijon
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>        
> >>>>>
> >>>>>         
> >>>      
> > 
> >   
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