Bug 12771

Summary: [Bitbake : 2.4.3RC2] Bitbake Devshell is failed in x86_64
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: pankaj yadav <pankaj-y>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod
Version: 2.4.3   
Target Milestone: 2.6   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description pankaj yadav 2018-06-04 09:10:30 UTC 
Configuration is mentioned below :
Release 2.4.3RC2 
poky : 7e7ee662f5dea4d090293045f7498093322802cc
Environment : x86_64

Steps to Reproduce :
1- $ clone poky
2- $ cd poky  
3- $ source oe-init-build-env && cd build 
4- $ bitbake matchbox-desktop
5- $ bitbake matchbox-desktop -c devshell 
6- Verify that "matchbox-desktop" binary file is not created under 
   "src" directory
7- Run below command:
	$ ./configure

After executing ./configure command getting below mentioned error message:


root@andromeda02:/data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/matchbox-desktop/2.2-r0/git# ./configure 
configure: loading site script /data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/meta/site/endian-little
configure: loading site script /data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/meta/site/common-linux
configure: loading site script /data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/meta/site/common-glibc
configure: loading site script /data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/meta/site/x86_64-linux
configure: loading site script /data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/meta/site/common
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/build/tmp/hosttools/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/build/tmp/hosttools/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... x86_64-poky-linux-gcc  -m64 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse --sysroot=/data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/matchbox-desktop/2.2-r0/recipe-sysroot
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/matchbox-desktop/2.2-r0/git':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
root@andromeda02:/data/pankajsx/25May_Release/yocto-2.4.3.rc2/poky/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/matchbox-desktop/2.2-r0/git#
Comment 1 Joshua Watt 2018-06-07 15:42:36 UTC 
It is unlikely that a simple './configure' step is going to be successful in devshell. It should be possible to run the configure step in devshell, but you will likely need some additional command line arguments. Particularly, I'm guessing you need additional arguments like --build, --host and --target to instruct autotools that you mean to cross compile.

You should be able to determine what additional arguments are passed to by looking at the recipe environment using "bitbake -e". The two variables of interest are CONFIGUREOPTS and EXTRA_OECONF. Both of these are passed to the configure script. You can see more detailed information by looking in meta/classes/autotools.bbclass, more specifically at the oe_runconf() function