7776 2015-05-18 11:42:54 +0000 libtool 2.4.2 -> 2.4.4 upgrade broke shared library support on mips64 2015-11-17 10:15:13 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core devtools / tool chain 1.8 x86 mips VERIFIED WORKSFORME Medium major 2.1 1 tanuk raj.khem bogdanx.a.voiculescu meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher ross.burton bogdanx.a.voiculescu --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 51068 0 tanuk 2015-05-18 11:42:54 +0000 Commit 871dc461b1dfc431c0c95743af1624b781262bce upgraded libtool from 2.4.2 to 2.4.4, and after that it seems that libtool hasn't been able to build shared libraries on mips64. Or at least kmod's build system thinks that libtool isn't able to do that, and I also noticed earlier that alsa-lib is producing static libraries on mips64, causing QA warnings (I didn't investigate that further when I saw those warnings). Trying to build kmod with MACHINE="qemumips64" fails in configure: | checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no | checking whether to build shared libraries... no | checking whether to build static libraries... yes | configure: error: --enable-static is not supported by kmod 51069 1 tanuk 2015-05-18 11:44:18 +0000 Assigning to Khem, as instructed by Ross. 51071 2 tanuk 2015-05-18 11:50:38 +0000 Sorry, I should have pasted a bit more of the configure output... The first message probably points towards the root cause: | checking whether the mips64-oe-linux-gcc -meb -mabi=64 -mhard-float --sysroot=/home/tanu/oe-qemumips64/tmp-glibc/sysroots/qemumips64 linker (mips64-oe-linux-ld --sysroot=/home/tanu/oe-qemumips64/tmp-glibc/sysroots/qemumips64 -m elf) supports shared libraries... mips64-oe-linux-ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf | Supported emulations: elf64btsmip elf32btsmipn32 elf32ltsmipn32 elf32btsmip elf32ltsmip elf64ltsmip | no | checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so | checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... unsupported | checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes | checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no | checking whether to build shared libraries... no | checking whether to build static libraries... yes | configure: error: --enable-static is not supported by kmod 55084 3 ross.burton 2015-10-08 16:40:52 +0000 Just tried this again with current master. NOTE: Running .../mips64-poky-linux/kmod/21+gitAUTOINC+114ec87c85-r0/git/configure --build=x86_64-linux --host=mips64-poky-linux --target=mips64-poky-linux [...] checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no It appears that either libtool 2.4.6, or something else, fixed this. 56504 4 bogdanx.a.voiculescu 2015-11-17 10:15:13 +0000 I have built recently MIPS64 and works.