2937 2012-08-13 11:11:52 +0000 gold taints sstate, can't rebuild 2014-05-03 19:30:08 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core 1.3 x86 Multiple RESOLVED WORKSFORME Medium normal 1.7 1 ross.burton raj.khem bluelightning jessica.zhang meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher richard.purdie --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 23952 0 ross.burton 2012-08-13 11:11:52 +0000 From a clean poky checkout, turn on the gold linker in local.conf: DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " ld-is-gold" Then bitbake core-image-minimal. This works. Decide that gold isn't for you after all. Remove that line from local.conf, wipe tmp/ and do another bitbake. As I understand it this should at least rebuild binutils. But: | checking for i586-poky-linux-readelf... i586-poky-linux-readelf | checking for i586-poky-linux-nm... /home/ross/Yocto/poky-gold/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/libexec/i586-poky-linux.gcc-cross-intermediate/gcc/i586-poky-linux/4.7.2/nm | checking for autoconf... autoconf | checking whether autoconf works... yes | configure: error: | *** These critical programs are missing or too old: ld | *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. | Configure failed. The contents of all config.log files follows to aid debugging | ERROR: oe_runconf failed | ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (see /home/ross/Yocto/poky-gold/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/eglibc-2.16-r5+svnr19383/temp/log.do_configure.5280 for further information) ERROR: Task 31 (/home/ross/Yocto/poky-gold/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb, do_configure) failed with exit code '1' eglibc fails to configure because the ld it finds is too "old". $ /home/ross/Yocto/poky-gold/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/libexec/i586-poky-linux.gcc-cross-intermediate/gcc/i586-poky-linux/4.7.2/ld --version GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.22) 1.11 Oh look, gold. I guess this is really two bugs - the intermediate binutils wasn't rebuilt - eglibc fails when the intermediate ld is gold But I'll leave this for people who know more about the build system to triage. 39401 1 bluelightning 2013-12-13 17:56:08 +0000 With latest master, it seems eglibc no longer gets rebuilt under these circumstances and thus you don't get the error; I'm not sure if that's the right thing or not; forcing a configure of eglibc after the fact succeeds though. We no longer have gcc-cross-intermediate of course, but gcc-cross *does* get rebuilt, FWIW. I'm not sure where that leaves us. Khem / Ross, any suggestions? 40714 2 raj.khem 2014-02-26 20:52:50 +0000 I think this commit commit 542609b968f0dc6f56cc9d6aabe4ff0144041261 Author: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> Date: Sun Feb 16 19:48:16 2014 +0000 binutils: ld-is-gold should not affect native and crosssdk recipes should help this case a bit too. Do we still see this issue with latest master ? 43107 3 richard.purdie 2014-05-03 19:30:08 +0000 I just restested this with master and it rebuilds everything it should and seems to work fine as far as I can tell.