[Aboriginal] /bin/sh error compiling distcc

Rob Landley rlandley at parallels.com
Mon Mar 14 16:36:00 PDT 2011


On 03/14/2011 08:05 AM, Alan Post wrote:
> I'm trying to build aboriginal 1.0.1 inside the i486 system image.
> The packages download and I get to the next stage, building host
> tools.

Sigh.  It used to self-host, I've been a bit distracted by the pending
uClibc-NPTL release and the growing list of platform regressions (sparc,
sh4, and mips64 have all been really close to working, but then they
float away again as new package releases come out...)

> busybox appears to compile fine.

I beat the busybox guys up when they break stuff. :)

> I'm getting the following error
> message tryitg to build distcc:
> 
> === Building host-tools
> === distcc (host host-tools)
> Snapshot 'distcc'...
> configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
> configure: WARNING: invalid host type: "--with-included-popt--disable-Werror"
> checking build system type... Invalid configuration `"--with-included-popt--disable-Werror"': machine `"--with-included-popt--disable' not recognized
> configure: error: /bin/bash ./config.sub "--with-included-popt--disable-Werror" failed
> 
> Exiting due to errors (host host-tools distcc)
> 
> 
> Somewhere in the configure stage for distcc, the two configure options:
> '--with-included-popt' and '--disable-Werror' are being joined together.

It's trying to use the wrong shell.  (None of the busybox shells
actually work quite right yet.  Making hush into a decent bash
replacement is a major todo item of mine if I ever get a spare 6 months.)

Sigh, it looks like I screwed up the sequencing and /bin/sh isn't
pointing to bash.  It should be.  I'll fix it.


> Going into the host-temp/distcc build directory, I try running the command
> by hand.  I get the same error message.  This suggests to me that I
> have a bug in /bin/sh in busybox.

The bug is that /bin/sh points to busybox.  There's a reason I install
bash.  I'd love to get rid of it, but busybox needs a major upgrade for
that to happen.  (Denys and I agree that "hush" is the shell to work on,
we just need to find the time...)

> Have I found the best workaround?  I'd also like to find and fix the
> underlying issue; that will require more testing on my part; I want
> to be able to compile the whole system first.

Fix the symlink in root-filesystem and re-run system-image.sh.

> -Alan

Rob

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