[Aboriginal] Reg: Exiting due to errors (host host-tools busybox)

[Rob Landley]

On 01/24/2012 08:56 PM, venkat raman wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I was trying to build for i686 and my host machine is ubuntu 11.10. I
> got the error as "Exiting due to errors (host host-tools busybox)"

That tells me three things:

1) What architecture it was building for (host, I.E. the host-tools step
which is target independent).

2) what stage it was on (running host-tools.sh)

3) what package it was trying to build (busybox).

So I know that building busybox for the host failed, but not _why_ it
failed. You didn't include the part of the build output with the actual
error message from busybox, which might tell me the reason the busybox
build failed.  Earlier in the log gcc or ld or make produced an error
message, which you didn't include in this bug report.

I note that if you're using an SMP machine, you can "export CPUS=1" to
force a single-processor build, which tends to give more informative
error messages and leave them at the end of the log instead of
potentially lost in the noise further up like parallel builds sometimes do.

> . I checked in the mailing list

Which mailing list, the busybox mailing list?  This mailing list?

> where I found a message related to this

Which you didn't link to either, so I have no idea what it said.

> but it has been built for i486,

The failure you had was before it got to anything target-specific, it
was still building prerequisites.  So it shouldn't matter which target
you told it to build, you'd get the same error.

> below is the link for the patch issued for this error.

I still have no idea which specific error you're referring to.

> Its seems like the build root

What does "the build root" mean in this instance?  (Do you mean the
build scripts?  It didn't get as far as building cross compilers, let
alone a root filesystem...)

> is up-to-date with the patch. but i still get this error.
> 
> http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1332

That's a link to the aboriginal linux source control repository from a
year ago.

You never specified what version you were trying, but that patch has
been in the last couple releases, so unless you're trying to build a
really old version it shouldn't matter.

Could you please send me the last screenful of log produced by the
failing build?

Rob

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