Bug 16448

Summary: AB-INT: gcc/binutils: QA Issue: uses 32-bit api
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand>
Component: coreAssignee: Unassigned <unassigned>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Undecided CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 0.0.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: AB-INT
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2026-10-12 08:35:31 UTC
We recently had these warnings on the autobuilder, while building a patch that looks entirely unrelated:

> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'gettimeofday' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'time' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'sigtimedwait' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'pthread_cond_clockwait' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'ioctl' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'getsockopt' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'select' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'fstat' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'wait4' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'getrusage' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'lstat' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'setsockopt' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'stat' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'fcntl' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'localtime_r' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb uses 32-bit api 'fstatat' [32bit-time]
> WARNING: gdb-cross-canadian-arm-18.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: Suppress with INSANE_SKIP = "32bit-time" [32bit-time]

And a similar one on binutils:

> WARNING: binutils-cross-canadian-arm-2.47-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/local/oe-sdk-hardcoded-buildpath/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-strip uses 32-bit api 'time' [32bit-time]
> ...

We do suspect there is something else that went into master and that is at the source of this error.
Comment 1 Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2026-10-12 08:57:41 UTC
beaglebone opensuse156-vk-1 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-08 07:05:19+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/2/builds/4801/steps/15/logs/stdio

genericx86 opensuse160-vk-1 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-08 07:05:32+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/19/builds/4789/steps/14/logs/stdio

qemuarm debian12-vk-2 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-08 08:05:19+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/16/builds/4831/steps/15/logs/stdio

qemuarm-oecore debian12-vk-5 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-08 07:41:16+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/40/builds/4769/steps/14/logs/stdio

qemuarmv5 rocky9-vk-2 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-08 07:23:36+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/80/builds/4628/steps/16/logs/stdio

qemux86 debian11-vk-3 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-08 08:06:26+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/30/builds/4807/steps/16/logs/stdio
Comment 2 Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2026-10-12 09:31:41 UTC
I would really be helpful to have warnings replayed when data is coming out of the sstate cache. This might be a bit tricky, but I will try to come with something.
Comment 3 Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2026-10-13 06:21:29 UTC
beaglebone fedora44-vk-3 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-12 19:49:58+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/2/builds/4817/steps/14/logs/stdio

genericx86 fedora43-vk-2 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-12 19:51:43+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/19/builds/4808/steps/14/logs/stdio

qemuarm debian12-vk-8 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-12 20:36:16+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/16/builds/4847/steps/15/logs/stdio

qemuarm-oecore ubuntu2510-vk-1 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-12 20:09:00+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/40/builds/4786/steps/14/logs/stdio

qemuarmv5 debian12-vk-7 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-12 19:55:03+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/80/builds/4644/steps/15/logs/stdio

qemux86 debian12-vk-5 mathieu/master-next completed at 2026-10-12 20:15:39+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/30/builds/4823/steps/15/logs/stdio
Comment 4 Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2026-10-13 07:11:42 UTC
I don't get it:
- First, I was not able to reproduce this locally, whatever I tried.
- Even reusing the build directory from a build trigerring errors does not show any warning (while forcing gcc-cross-canadian-arm rebuild).
- But also, these warnings should already be masked: https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/time64.inc#n67