[Buildroot] Nodejs failure for arm cortex-A8

[Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>]

Hi Ben,

On Sun, Mar 17 2019, Boris-Ben Shapiro wrote:
> So now If I want to use the only NON-buildroot toolchain for this CPU:
> Sourcery CodeBench ARM 2014.05, I cannot...
> Is there a solution where I can use external toolchain Sourcery
> CodeBench ARM 2014.05 and still compile NodeJS

You need to deal with two separate issues here. (1) target toolchain,
and (2) host toolchain. That is because you must first build host-nodejs
to build nodejs for target. Buildroot takes care of that for you.

Both toolchains must be gcc 4.9 or newer. That is upstream nodejs
decision as of version 8. Buildroot can't do much about that. You might
have some luck with older nodejs versions.

The Sourcery ARM 2014.05 toolchain is based on gcc 4.8 to it can't build
nodejs 8. You can use other toolchain like the Linaro or Arm (Inc)
provided toolchains. You must set target ABI to EABIhf to select these
toolchains.

Same goes for host toolchain. Ubuntu 14.04 default toolchain is gcc
4.8. This toolchain can't build host-nodejs. So you must install a newer
host gcc version.

baruch

> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 18:53, Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Boris-Ben,
>>
>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:01:27 +0200, Boris-Ben Shapiro <erectcrested@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Just saw : https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d13a65ad68c429884434cdcd94c52b79a6d69717
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > I will try this after the weekend
>>
>> With this patch your will see the following comment in make menuconfig
>>
>>     "nodejs needs a toolchain w/ C++, dynamic library, NPTL, gcc >= 4.9, wchar"
>>
>> This will change nothing for your host and selected crosss-compile toolchain...
>>
>> >
>> > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 17:59, Boris-Ben Shapiro <erectcrested@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi Baruch.
>> > > I am a bit tied to Ubuntu 14.04. Can you guide me on how to update the
>> > > nodejs toolchain dependency? I use the CodeSourcery 2014 toolchain.
>> > > There is no other option for CS toolchain, only buildroot toolchain
>> > > which I don't want to use, as my project already tested with CS
>> > > toolchain.
>> > > Is it a difficult task to update nodejs toolchain version dependecy?
>>
>> It is not about the cross-compile toolchain, your failure while compiling host-nodejs
>> (using your host GCC /usr/bin/gcc to compile exectuables for your host/ubuntu),
>> to fix this you need to update your host gcc...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>>
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 17:57, Boris-Ben Shapiro <erectcrested@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hi Baruch.
>> > > > I am a bit tied to Ubuntu 14.04. Can you guide me on how to update the
>> > > > nodejs toolchain dependency? I use the CodeSourcery 2014 toolchain.
>> > > > There is no other option for CS toolchain, only buildroot toolchain
>> > > > which I don't want to use, as my project already tested with CS
>> > > > toolchain.
>> > > > Is it a difficult task to update nodejs toolchain version dependecy?
>> > > >
>> > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 08:01, Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Hi Ben,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Thu, Mar 14 2019, Boris-Ben Shapiro wrote:
>> > > > > > I am trying to compile buildroot master branch on ubuntu 14.04 32-bit.
>> > > > > > The target compilation is for TI DM8148 processor (DaVinci series).
>> > > > > > This is the defconfig I used: http://code.bulix.org/wbenum-621398
>> > > > > > And this is full configuration: http://code.bulix.org/lqktww-621399
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I get a multiple failures while compiling nodejs package:
>> > > > > > http://code.bulix.org/8gdwec-621396
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Can anyone please help with this?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Ubuntu 14.04 carries gcc 4.8, I guess. Current nodejs requires gcc 4.9.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >   https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d13a65ad68c429884434cdcd94c52b79a6d69717
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Try a newer host toolchain.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I guess we need to update the nodejs toolchain version dependency.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > baruch
>> > > > >
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