Re: [Openzaurus-devel] GettingStarted / OZ3.5.4.1 development

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 08:46 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
> I'm sending this to [email protected] to get some help on this. Looks
> like there's a missing depends somewhere here. I'm running this test
> on a system which is used to build from OE all the time.
> 
> This test is with the org.openembedded.dev branch.
> 
> I decided it was time for me to try building nano from scratch again.
> I didn't get that problem, but I did get this one:
> 
> | checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:
> error: C compiler cannot create executables
> | See `config.log' for more details.
> | FATAL: oe_runconf failed
> NOTE: Task failed:
> /home/papercrane/oe/2.6.build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/ncurses-5.4-r8/temp/log.do_configure.20815
> NOTE: package ncurses-5.4-r8: task do_configure: failed
> ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
> 
> It looks like nano isn't the thing we should be telling people to
> bitbake first. :-|

Just to let you know, we traced this problem to a bug in bitbake. A new
release of the stable series of bitbake is due this morning with a fix
for this (or you can get the stable version from svn immediately).

Richard