Re: Configure errors under yocto

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 16:52 +0100, Colin Helliwell wrote:
> > On 29 March 2017 at 15:13 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 14:32 +0100, Colin Helliwell wrote:
> >
> > > > > On 27 March 2017 at 14:25 Colin Helliwell <colin.helliwell@ln
> > > > > -sys tems.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > > ... but still have subsequent errors which seem to have been
> > > > > due
> > > > > to output directories not having been created e.g. libnm-
> > > > > core,
> > > > > introspection.
> > > > > I can get it to limp a little further by creating the
> > > > > directories
> > > > > in the pre-configure, but not totally.
> > > > > Something perhaps not hooked in right to cater for the build
> > > > > directory being different to the source directory...?
> > >
> > > May I contribute the attached patch for building-outside-source-
> > > directory? Well, as a starting point, at least - there may be
> > > other
> > > build targets which could benefit from a similar mod, but I'm
> > > building with my own (reduced) feature set, so I may not being
> > > seeing
> > > all of them.
> > > Hopefully it helps though.
> >
> > NM should support "srcdir != builddir" already, but sometimes bugs
> > creep into the makefiles. What specific error are you getting from
> > the
> > build process?
>
> The error log is (bearing in mind this is under Yocto environment):
>
> DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'bit-32', 'arm-common', 'arm-32', 
> 'common-linux', 'common-glibc', 'arm-linux', 'arm-linux-gnueabi',
> 'common']
> DEBUG: Executing shell function do_compile
> NOTE: make -j 8
> /usr/bin/perl ../git/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-vpn-dbus-types'
> 'VPN Plugin D-Bus API Types' ../git/libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-
> interface.h ../git/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl >libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-
> types.xml
> /usr/bin/perl ../git/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-dbus-types'
> 'NetworkManager D-Bus API Types' ../git/libnm-core/nm-dbus-
> interface.h ../git/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl >libnm-core/nm-dbus-
> types.xml
> /bin/sh: libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-types.xml: No such file or directory
> /bin/sh: libnm-core/nm-dbus-types.xml: No such file or directory
> make: *** [libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-types.xml] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** [libnm-core/nm-dbus-types.xml] Error 1
> ERROR: oe_runmake failed
> ERROR: Function failed: do_compile (log file is located at
> /home/colin/100051-karo/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-
> neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/networkmanager/1.6-
> r0/temp/log.do_compile.6973)
>
> 'ls <build-dir>' shows just:
> aclocal-copy                    config.log     docs        libnm-
> util         po        vapi
> arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-
> libtool  config.status  libnm       Makefile           shared
> config.h                        data           libnm-
> glib  NetworkManager.pc  stamp-h1

Does this patch make anything better?

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index bacc616..1b9a2b4 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -586,12 +586,12 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \
        libnm-core/crypto_nss.c
 
 libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-types.xml: libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-interface.h tools/enums-to-docbook.pl
-       @$(MKDIR_P) libnm-core/
-       $(AM_V_GEN) @PERL@ $(srcdir)/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-vpn-dbus-types' 'VPN Plugin D-Bus API 
Types' $< >$@
+       @$(MKDIR_P) $(top_builddir)/libnm-core/
+       $(AM_V_GEN) @PERL@ $(srcdir)/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-vpn-dbus-types' 'VPN Plugin D-Bus API 
Types' $< >$(top_builddir)/$@
 
 libnm-core/nm-dbus-types.xml: libnm-core/nm-dbus-interface.h tools/enums-to-docbook.pl
-       @$(MKDIR_P) libnm-core/
-       $(AM_V_GEN) @PERL@ $(srcdir)/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-dbus-types' 'NetworkManager D-Bus API 
Types' $< >$@
+       @$(MKDIR_P) $(top_builddir)/libnm-core/
+       $(AM_V_GEN) @PERL@ $(srcdir)/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-dbus-types' 'NetworkManager D-Bus API 
Types' $< >$(top_builddir)/$@
 
 BUILT_SOURCES += \
        libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-types.xml \