Bug 12333

Summary:	gobject-introspection freezes during compilation when using OE rocko
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Gino Badouri <badouri.g>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Gino Badouri <badouri.g>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod, ross.burton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	2.5
Hardware:	Other
OS:	other
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Gino Badouri 2017-11-10 07:31:08 UTC

Hi there,

My apologies for posting the bug in the "core" components section, but there's no "gnome" section.

I'm trying to build an image for my platform using OE version rocko, but the gobject-introspection component seems to hang forever during compilation.

My host: Fedora 27
Target: sh4
Compiler: gcc 4.9.4

See the following log: https://pastebin.com/1ifJTQSE

It used to build with morty.

Comment 1 Ross Burton 2017-11-16 17:04:46 UTC

rocko doesn't ship gcc 4.9.4 so is that an external toolchain that the SH4 BSP needs?  g-i needs enabling by BSPs, so I'd suggest filing a bug with the BSP provider.

Comment 2 Alexander Kanavin 2017-11-16 17:14:19 UTC

YP doesn't even provide a sh4 machine definition that I can try to reproduce with, so I too think this issue belongs with the BSP provider.

Comment 3 Alexander Kanavin 2017-11-17 12:05:45 UTC

So let us know if there's a reasonable way we can try to reproduce and fix this, otherwise there's not much that can be done.

Comment 4 Randy MacLeod 2017-12-01 21:35:49 UTC

Gino,
It would be great if you could ask the provider of the sh4 support to work with the YP to add sh4 support to oe-core and to join the community in supporting gobject-introspection and all of oe-core.

Comment 5 Gino Badouri 2017-12-04 16:00:19 UTC

Hi, first of thank you for all the replies.
My apologies for the late response, I have been busy for the past weeks.

It was wrong submit a bug for a unsupported platform.
Also there's nothing wrong with gobject-introspection at all.
I already got it to work, so this bug can be closed.

Some background information:
My platform (digital satellite dvb receiver with STi 7xxx chipset) uses a SoC which is simply not properly supported anymore in newer versions of gcc/glibc.

That's why we "downgrade" the version of gcc to 4.9.4 and glibc to 2.23 so we can keep building using this older toolchain.

Reason for the gobject-introspection package not building properly is because qemu 2.10.0 refuses to boot when built for target sh4.
And gobject-introspection recipe seems to rely on qemu for prorperly building the package.

So downgrading qemu to 2.8.0 (the version used in Pyro) fixes this issue, allowing gobject-introspection (and everything else relying on qemu) to build again.

So we now have a working image for our receiver again.

Comment 6 Ross Burton 2017-12-04 16:14:59 UTC

Thanks for reporting back.  It's obviously a problem that new qemu doesn't work for sh4, have you reported that to the qemu maintainers?