Error building Coreboot for MinnowBoard Max in Debian

Hello members of the community

This is my first time writing to the email list to ask for some help or insights about my problems building Coreboot. I apologize if I make some mistakes while attempting to communicate.

My problem:

I am trying to build Coreboot for my MinnowBoard Max following the instructions found in this book: Embedded Firmware Solutions: Development Best Practices for the Internet of Things. While executing “make crossgcc-i386” within the coreboot folder, the make throws this error:

configure:3602:  /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/build-i386-elf-gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/build-i386-elf-gcc/./gcc/ -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/bin/ -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/lib/ -isystem /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/include -isystem /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/sys-include    -c -O2  conftest.c >&5
cc1: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction
0x8844bf crash_signal
 ../../gcc-4.9.2/gcc/toplev.c:337
0x6ef7f8 ggc_min_expand_heuristic
 ../../gcc-4.9.2/gcc/ggc-common.c:840
0x6f02a8 init_ggc_heuristics()
 ../../gcc-4.9.2/gcc/ggc-common.c:899
0x885984 general_init
 ../../gcc-4.9.2/gcc/toplev.c:1176
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
Please include the complete backtrace with any bug report.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions.
configure:3606: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU C Runtime Library"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libgcc"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU C Runtime Library 1.0"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL "http://www.gnu.org/software/libgcc/"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:3620: error: in `/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/build-i386-elf-gcc/i386-elf/libgcc':
configure:3623: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.

In any case, I am attaching the full “config.log” for you to review - if possible at all.

I am running Debian 7.6 inside VirtualBox in an AMD A8-4500M Machine (64-bit)

Thank you beforehand for any help or insights you may be able to provide.

Juan

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Error building Coreboot for MinnowBoard Max in Debian

[Peter Stuge]

[e-mail] wrote:
> While executing “make crossgcc-i386” within the coreboot folder,
> the make throws this error:
>
> configure:3602:  /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/build-i386-elf-gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/build-i386-elf-gcc/./gcc/ -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/bin/ -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/lib/ -isystem /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/include -isystem /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/sys-include    -c -O2  conftest.c >&5
> cc1: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction

..
> Thank you beforehand for any help or insights you may be able to provide.

So the C compiler in your distribution (apparently gcc-4.9.2) seems
to have been built for a machine with some capabilities that the
machine you are using does not support or implement.

Your best bet is probably to try a different Linux distribution.
I'm afraid I can not make a recommendation. Several distributions
ship broken toolchains. Investigate what distributions others have
used for development (of any kind, not coreboot) with your particular
combination of hardware and hypervisor.

//Peter

Error building Coreboot for MinnowBoard Max in Debian 7.6 (Wheezy)

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Juan,

Am Montag, den 18.05.2015, 21:05 +0000 schrieb [e-mail]:
> This is my first time writing to the email list to ask for some help
> or insights about my problems building Coreboot. I apologize if I make
> some mistakes while attempting to communicate.

Welcome to coreboot! Please just send plain text message with no HTML
parts to mailing lists.
> My problem:
>
> I am trying to build Coreboot for my MinnowBoard Max following the
> instructions found in this book: Embedded Firmware Solutions:
> Development Best Practices for the Internet of Things. While executing
> “make crossgcc-i386” within the coreboot folder, the make throws this
> error:
>
> configure:3602:  /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/build-i386-elf-gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/build-i386-elf-gcc/./gcc/ -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/bin/ -B/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/lib/ -isystem /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/include -isystem /home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/xgcc/i386-elf/sys-include    -c -O2  conftest.c >&5
> cc1: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction
> 0x8844bf crash_signal
>  ../../gcc-4.9.2/gcc/toplev.c:337
> 0x6ef7f8 ggc_min_expand_heuristic
>  ../../gcc-4.9.2/gcc/ggc-common.c:840
> 0x6f02a8 init_ggc_heuristics()
>  ../../gcc-4.9.2/gcc/ggc-common.c:899
> 0x885984 general_init
>  ../../gcc-4.9.2/gcc/toplev.c:1176
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> Please include the complete backtrace with any bug report.
> See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions.
> configure:3606: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU C Runtime Library"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libgcc"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0"
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU C Runtime Library 1.0"
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
> | #define PACKAGE_URL "http://www.gnu.org/software/libgcc/"
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> | 
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:3620: error: in `/home/juan/fsp_coreboot/coreboot/util/crossgcc/build-i386-elf-gcc/i386-elf/libgcc':
> configure:3623: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> In any case, I am attaching the full “config.log” for you to review - if possible at all.

Did you forget to attach it?
> I am running Debian 7.6 inside VirtualBox in an AMD A8-4500M Machine (64-bit)

Debian 7.6 has GCC 4.7.2 [1], right? You can try to build coreboot with
the distribution toolchain (in the general section in the Kconfig menu
choose to build with any toolchain). Please remember that this is not
supported and might not work.

Also, you can try Debian Jessie with GCC 4.9.2.

Thanks,

Paul

[1] https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&keywords=gcc