(sorry, i deleted the last post so couldn't simply reply to continue
the thread.)

  on fully-updated fedora 12, same beagleboard-demo-image build as
always from the dev branch:

ERROR: function do_compile failed
ERROR: see log in
/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/e2fsprogs-1.41.5-r1/temp/log.do_compile.978
NOTE: Task failed:
/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/e2fsprogs-1.41.5-r1/temp/log.do_compile.978
ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
ERROR: Build of
/home/rpjday/oe/openembedded/recipes/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.41.5.bb
do_compile failed
ERROR: Task 6899
(/home/rpjday/oe/openembedded/recipes/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.41.5.bb,
do_compile) failed

  once again, from the tail end of the log file:

making all in e2fsck
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/e2fsprogs-1.41.5-r1/e2fsprogs-1.41.5/e2fsck'
        CC crc32.c
        CC unix.c
        CC e2fsck.c
        CC super.c
        CC pass1.c
        CC pass1b.c
        CC pass2.c
        CC pass3.c
        CC pass4.c
        CC pass5.c
        CC journal.c
        CC badblocks.c
        CC util.c
        CC dirinfo.c
        CC dx_dirinfo.c
        CC ehandler.c
        CC problem.c
        CC message.c
        CC recovery.c
        CC region.c
        CC revoke.c
        CC ea_refcount.c
        CC rehash.c
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `-lpthread', needed by `e2fsck'.
Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/e2fsprogs-1.41.5-r1/e2fsprogs-1.41.5/e2fsck'
make[1]: *** [all-progs-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/e2fsprogs-1.41.5-r1/e2fsprogs-1.41.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2
FATAL: oe_runmake failed

  the full log file is attached.  to the best of my knowledge, i
haven't changed anything that would affect my OE builds.

rday

p.s.  in this latest bitbake, this is task 9121 of 10150, so it's not
like there's a hideous screwup that would have affected multiple
packages.

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