#164: Building Coreboot v4 r5555/5554 fails mysteriously on Debian lenny and etch (x86) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: juhe@… | Owner: stepan@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: coreboot | Keywords: makefile, debian Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- I am trying to build Coreboot v4 from SVN with default settings, but I get build failures. The build environment is Debian Linux on x86.
Process goes as follows: {{{ - check out coreboot trunk from SVN as per wiki instructions - run "make menuconfig", select QEMU hardware (default), ROM size either 256K or 1M - run "make": }}} {{{ coreboot.r5554$ make HOSTCC util/romcc/romcc (this may take a while) ROMCC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/bootblock.inc GEN bootblock/bootblock.c CC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/bootblock.s CC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/bootblock.o GEN bootblock/ldscript.ld LINK bootblock.elf OBJCOPY coreboot.bootblock HOSTCC cbfstool/common.o [..cut..] HOSTCC util/options/build_opt_tbl OPTION option_table.h GEN build.h ROMCC romstage.inc GEN romstage/crt0.S CC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/crt0.s CC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/crt0.initobj.o make: *** No rule to make target `/optbuild/lib/uart8250.initobj.o', needed by `build/coreboot.romstage'. Stop. }}}
I have tried this on two separate Debian/lenny machines with the same results. Is Debian somehow broken or Coreboot build scripts? Or am I making some mistake? What is this directory /optbuild and why coreboot build is trying to create/access it? I tried to grep "optbuild" from the sources, but it does not seem to exist there.
Trying the same on Debian/etch (older release): {{{ % make mkdir: cannot create directory `/optbuild': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/optbuild': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/optbuild': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/optbuild': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/optbuild': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/optbuild': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/optbuild': Permission denied ROMCC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/bootblock.inc GEN bootblock/bootblock.c CC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/bootblock.s CC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/bootblock.o GEN bootblock/ldscript.ld LINK bootblock.elf collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault] make: *** [build/bootblock.elf] Error 1 }}} This looks like broken ld in Debian, or something going wrong in the build process.
#164: Building Coreboot v4 r5555/5554 fails mysteriously on Debian lenny and etch (x86) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: juhe@… | Owner: stepan@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: coreboot | Keywords: makefile, debian Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Comment(by stepan):
This is odd, for some reason "$(obj)" seems to be set to "/optbuild" on your system. LD is definitely broken, since it segfaults.
But it's something else that reconfigures your build directory to a directory you don't have write permissions to. You need to fix this first - probably the segfault will go away then, too.
As for the broken toolchain please use the reference toolchain in coreboot/util/crossgcc.
#164: Building Coreboot v4 r5555/5554 fails mysteriously on Debian lenny and etch (x86) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: juhe@… | Owner: stepan@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: coreboot | Keywords: makefile, debian Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Comment(by juhe@…):
Ok, now I got it.
The system is set up so that /home is not a directory but a symlink to /opt/home , which is the real location of home directories. I was doing the build under my home directory and the shell (pwd command) believed it was operating under /home rather than /opt/home.
The Coreboot Makefile seems to do some computation on pathnames and in this case it was confused by the symlink along the path. So the end result was in some cases adding an extra prefix "/opt" to path names, e.g. "/optbuild/foo/bar" instead of "build/foo/bar".
As the Makefile seems quite complicated for me, I "fixed" this by doing a chdir from /home/juhe to /opt/home/juhe, i.e. the same place via a different name, and everything works fine.
Thanks for providing the missing clue to solving this!
#164: Building Coreboot v4 r5555/5554 fails mysteriously on Debian lenny and etch (x86) ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: juhe@… | Owner: stepan@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: major | Milestone: Component: coreboot | Resolution: fixed Keywords: makefile, debian | Dependencies: Patch Status: there is no patch | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Changes (by stepan):
* status: new => closed * resolution: => fixed
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