[Q] Help Compiling the source

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Trying to compile the source for the archos gen 8s. If I can compile it, I might be able to add in root support, but I have hit a snag. When I compile I get this:

make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/glib-2.16.5/gthread'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/glib-2.16.5/gthread'
Making install in gobject
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/glib-2.16.5/gobject'
/usr/bin/make glib-genmarshal
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/glib-2.16.5/gobject'
make[4]: `glib-genmarshal' is up to date.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/glib-2.16.5/gobject'
echo "#ifndef __G_MARSHAL_H__" > xgen-gmh \
	&& echo "#define __G_MARSHAL_H__" >> xgen-gmh \
	&&  --nostdinc --prefix=g_cclosure_marshal ./gmarshal.list --header >> xgen-gmh \
	&& echo "#endif /* __G_MARSHAL_H__ */" >> xgen-gmh \
	&& (cmp -s xgen-gmh gmarshal.h 2>/dev/null || cp xgen-gmh gmarshal.h) \
	&& rm -f xgen-gmh xgen-gmh~ \
	&& echo timestamp > stamp-gmarshal.h
/bin/bash: line 2: --nostdinc: command not found
make[3]: *** [stamp-gmarshal.h] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/glib-2.16.5/gobject'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/glib-2.16.5'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/glib-2.16.5'
make: *** [/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/lib/libglib-2.0.a] Error 2

I googled around and was unable to figure out what is going on there. --nostdinc should be a command for GCC, but doesn't seem to be working correctly. When I run gcc -v I get:

Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-targets=all --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=i686-linux-gnu --host=i686-linux-gnu --target=i686-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5)

PS If you do get it compiled I found where you can override user for certain applications: /buildroot/package/dbus/archos.conf

It looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>

  <!-- ../system.conf have denied everything, so we just punch some holes -->

  <policy user="root">
    <allow own="com.archos.emaild"/>
  </policy>

<!-- Add your service name
  <policy user="root">
    <allow own="com.archos.Service"/>
  </policy>
-->

</busconfig>

the whole build process seems to be buggy as hell

# make menuconfig
results in

package/Config.in:443: can't open file "package/apdf/Config.in"

# make clean
results in

/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/usr/share/info/dir: could not read (No such file or directory) and could not create (No such file or directory)
make[2]: *** [uninstall-info-am] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/diffutils-2.8.7/doc'
make[1]: *** [uninstall-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/diffutils-2.8.7'
make: *** [diffutils-clean] Error 2

How long did yours compile for? Mine compiled for over an hour before failing.

I'll start all over again and measure it.

 /data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc -shared  .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-abilities-list.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-ahd_bayer.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-bayer.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-camera.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-context.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-exif.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-file.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-filesys.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gamma.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-jpeg.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-list.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-result.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-version.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-setting.o .libs/libgphoto2_la-gphoto2-widget.o  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/usr/lib -L/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/lib -L/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lgphoto2_port -L/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/usr/lib -L/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/usr/lib -lltdl -lm  -isysroot /data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir -mtune=cortex-a8 -isysroot /data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir -mtune=cortex-a8 -Wl,-soname -Wl,libgphoto2.so.2 -Wl,-version-script -Wl,.libs/libgphoto2.ver -o .libs/libgphoto2.so.2.4.0
/usr/lib/libltdl.so: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool: install: error: relink `libgphoto2.la' with the above command before installing it
make[3]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/libgphoto2-2.4.9.1/libgphoto2'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/libgphoto2-2.4.9.1/libgphoto2'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/libgphoto2-2.4.9.1'
make: *** [/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/lib/libgphoto2.so] Error 2

real    38m3.275s
user    50m36.129s
sys     6m27.836s

I don't know why it's referring to /usr/lib/libltdl.so because this would be a 64bit lib of my linux machine. bug?

You two realise that you can't just use a PC version of gcc to compile an arm version of sw?


You need the crosscompile toolchain to do this, and than its working correctly.

the toolchain is inside the xxx.tgz archive and it is used for building. no need for extra toolchain

But laptopfeak is using something that does:
Target: i686-linux-gnu

wrong. he just typed gcc -v in his shell. this uses of course his very own gcc and not the one served by the archos toolchain.

when I type gcc -v using the archos toolchain it looks like this:

# gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi
Configured with: /data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/gcc-4.4.1/configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-sysroot=/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir --with-build-time-tools=/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi/bin --disable-__cxa_atexit --enable-target-optspace --with-gnu-ld --enable-shared --with-gmp=/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/gmp --with-mpfr=/data/temp/archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/mpfr --disable-nls --enable-threads --disable-multilib --with-tune=cortex-a8 --with-cpu=cortex-a8 --with-arch=armv7-a --with-fpu=vfp3 --with-float=softfp
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.1 (GCC)

the toolchain builds the crosscompiler itself and then starts crosscompiling

I did find out why I was getting one of the errors. I was missing some dependencies. Found a quick tutorial on how to compile the kernel for the gen7. http://archos.g3nius.org/index.php?t...iling_gen7-gpl

Now I am getting an error about the .config file being out of date. Odd thing is that the make menuconfig does not work... as previously mentioned.

	PATH="/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin:/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/bin:/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin:/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/:/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" \
	./Configure linux-arm --prefix=/ \
		--openssldir=/lib/ssl -L/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/lib -ldl \
		-I/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/include  threads \
		shared no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5)
Configuring for linux-arm
IsWindows=0
CC            =gcc
CFLAG         =-fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -I/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/include -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DOPENSSL_NO_MDC2 -DOPENSSL_NO_RC5 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO  -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall
EX_LIBS       =-L/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/lib -ldl -ldl
BN_ASM        =bn_asm.o
DES_ENC       =des_enc.o fcrypt_b.o
BF_ENC        =bf_enc.o
CAST_ENC      =c_enc.o
RC4_ENC       =rc4_enc.o
RC5_ENC       =rc5_enc.o
MD5_OBJ_ASM   =
SHA1_OBJ_ASM  =
RMD160_OBJ_ASM=
PROCESSOR     =
RANLIB        =/usr/bin/ranlib
ARFLAGS       =
PERL          =/usr/bin/perl
THIRTY_TWO_BIT mode
DES_RISC1 used
BN_LLONG mode
RC4_CHUNK is undefined
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m'
Makefile is older than Makefile.org.
Reconfigure the source tree (via './config' or 'perl Configure'), please.
make[1]: *** [Makefile] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m'
/usr/bin/make MAKE="/usr/bin/make -j1" CC=/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc -C /home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m all build-shared
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m'
Makefile is older than Makefile.org.
Reconfigure the source tree (via './config' or 'perl Configure'), please.
make[1]: *** [Makefile] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m'
make: *** [/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m/apps/openssl] Error 2
jonathan@tablet-Ubuntu:~/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot$ make menuconfig
make CC="/usr/bin/gcc" -C package/config conf mconf
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/package/config'
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2  -c conf.c -o conf.o
conf.c: In function ‘conf_askvalue’:
conf.c:104: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
conf.c: In function ‘conf_choice’:
conf.c:362: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2  -c kxgettext.c -o kxgettext.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2  -c lxdialog/checklist.c -o lxdialog/checklist.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2  -c lxdialog/inputbox.c -o lxdialog/inputbox.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2  -c lxdialog/menubox.c -o lxdialog/menubox.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2  -c lxdialog/textbox.c -o lxdialog/textbox.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2  -c lxdialog/util.c -o lxdialog/util.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2  -c lxdialog/yesno.c -o lxdialog/yesno.o
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h', needed by `mconf.o'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/package/config'
make: *** [package/config/mconf] Error 2

Oh and this does seem to be the buggiest source/compile I have ever dealt with. But I did talk to someone on xchat last night and they said that they got it to compile out of box.

I installed a fresh ubuntu 10.10 into a virtual machine and installed the packages mentioned on this website: http://archos.g3nius.org/index.php?t...iling_gen7-gpl

currently building.. stay tuned..

edit: still buggy