4553 2013-05-24 09:51:16 +0000 cracklib: do_compile failed on RHEL5.8 in which glibc version less than 2.9 2013-05-30 03:23:49 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core 1.5 x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Undecided normal --- 1 hongxu.jia hongxu.jia hongxu.jia kai.kang liezhi.yang mark.hatle meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher ning.zhang Qi.Chen sen.zhang sgw yi.zhao --- --- --- oldest_to_newest 33268 0 hongxu.jia 2013-05-24 09:51:16 +0000 *env Build Configuration: BB_VERSION = "1.19.0" BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux" NATIVELSBSTRING = "RedHatEnterpriseClient-5.8" TARGET_SYS = "i586-poky-linux" MACHINE = "qemux86" DISTRO = "poky" DISTRO_VERSION = "1.4+snapshot-20130524" TUNE_FEATURES = "m32 i586" TARGET_FPU = "" meta meta-yocto meta-yocto-bsp = "hongxu-0524:e8197722de1f6006ceae0d4266de91c1db7278e3" Update python to 2.6 glibc's version: glibc-2.5-81 *problem do_compile cracklib failed ... | ../lib/.libs/libcrack.so: undefined reference to `be64toh' | ../lib/.libs/libcrack.so: undefined reference to `htobe16' | ../lib/.libs/libcrack.so: undefined reference to `htobe32' | ../lib/.libs/libcrack.so: undefined reference to `htobe64' | ../lib/.libs/libcrack.so: undefined reference to `be32toh' | ../lib/.libs/libcrack.so: undefined reference to `be16toh' | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ... *analysis cracklib invokes C functions `be16toh/be32toh/be64toh/htobe16/htobe32/htobe64' to fix endian issue on multi platform, but these functions are nonstandard which were added to glibc in version 2.9. So do_compile failed while host's glibc version < 2.9 *solution Use standard `htons/htonl/ntohs/ntohl' instead. For the `be64toh/htobe64', there is not similar functions, we define `ntohll/htonll' on local to replace. 33380 1 hongxu.jia 2013-05-30 03:23:49 +0000 There are two solution to fix this issue, and Mark Hatle's is better. Merged into master: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=5a607c1e48c6921ceaf393cd71a36cf5ace2f3fa