where can I find information to aid in compiling utilities for mpc8308 target

[stacym]

Hi,

I'm wondering where to look for information about building additional utilities for the MPC8308 target.  In particular, I would like to add oprofile (or similar performance monitoring tool)

I'm using ltib for the first time and have never needed to do anything like this before

Thanks,

Stacy

[yipingwang]

I just checked ltib ISO ltib-mpc8308erdb-20100305, oprofile 0.9.3 spec file has already integrated into this ltib ISO, after installing LTIB ISO, please run the command.

./ltib -c

And in the menu enter into packages selection list from

Package list  --->

Select "oprofile" in the list, exit and rebuild filesystem with package oprofile.

Have a great day,
Yiping Wang

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[stacym]

Hi Yiping Wang,

Thank you for taking the time to answer.  I had tried doing what you suggest above but oprofile seems to be dependent on popt, which I cannot control.

The Package list shows --- popt

I believe this means the popt is included because of the dependency...and popt requires gettext, which I also included.  Building with these package added (oprofile, popt and gettext) results in the following error:

checking mcheck.h usability... yes

checking mcheck.h presence... yes

checking for mcheck.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes

checking for /usr/ucblib in LIBS... no

checking for GNU xgettext... configure: error:

  *** GNU gettext is required. The latest version

  *** is always available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/.

error: Bad exit status from /opt/freescale/ltib-mpc8308erdb-20100413/ltib-mpc8308erdb-zmi/tmp/rpm-tmp.99998 (%build)

　

RPM build errors:

  Bad exit status from /opt/freescale/ltib-mpc8308erdb-20100413/ltib-mpc8308erdb-zmi/tmp/rpm-tmp.99998 (%build)

Build time for popt: 3 seconds

Failed building popt

　

f_buildrpms() returned an error, exiting

traceback:

main:560

　

Started: Mon Jun 9 15:36:28 2014

Ended: Mon Jun 9 15:37:41 2014

Elapsed: 73 seconds

These packages failed to build:

popt

Build Failed

Exiting on error or interrupt

zmi@debian:/opt/freescale/ltib-mpc8308erdb-20100413/ltib-mpc8308erdb-zmi$

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Stacy

[yipingwang]

I have verified the building on my build server without any problem, please try whether the following commands would be helpful for you.

$./ltib -m prep -p gettext

$./ltib -m scbuild -p gettext

$./ltib -m scinstall -p gettext

$./ltib -m scdeploy -p gettext

Then use "./ltib -c" to build the filesystem.

Have a great day,
Yiping Wang

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[stacym]

Hello,

Thanks for the help, I tried the steps above to build gettext but still get the same error message when I run the last step (./ltib -c)

Just for comparison, my release of ltib is 20100413 and gettext version is 0.15.  I tried getting version 0.19 of gettext, but for some reason, 0.15 is always built (even if I rename it)  I'm pretty new to ltib and the build environment, so any other tips you can give me would help

Stacy

[yipingwang · Accepted solution]

The package popt checks the xgettext on the host when configuration, please try to use the following steps to use ltib to build and deploy host xgettext, which I have verified on a clean Ubuntu machine.

1. rm config/platform/host/.config and config/platform/host/host.config(if these files exist).

2. Edit the file config/platform/host/ltib.preconfig to enable gettext.

CONFIG_PKG_GETTEXT=y

3. Rebuild and deploy the host environment.

./ltib --hostcf

4. Then you could build popt successfully.

Have a great day,
Yiping Wang

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