[Buildroot] bash fails to compile with git tree

[Sven Neumann]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 10:15 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniele" == Daniele Salvatore Albano <d.albano at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  Daniele> have someone tried to compile bash? Yesterday, trying to fix
>  Daniele> my buildroot to send patches i moved my tree and cloned the
>  Daniele> head to get a working one (i got some problems with git) but
>  Daniele> when i tried to compile my root system, without applying any
>  Daniele> patches i done (i was just waiting to get errors to apply
>  Daniele> patches), bash failed to compile with a strange reason:
>  Daniele> missing termcap.h
> 
>  Daniele> Checking ncurses and bash make files seems all ok, and making
>  Daniele> a diff with my old tree showed no differences. Toolchain works
>  Daniele> perfectly because i can build mi initrd (i use two separate br
>  Daniele> trees) without any problem and that br2 is from git and is up
>  Daniele> to date too. I don't build bash on my initrd, only busybox
>  Daniele> with few stuff.
> 
>  Daniele> I can't send my .config, i'm at work, when i'll get at home
>  Daniele> i'll send it, however someone got problems building bash?
> 
> Is this with an external toolchain? I just did a quick test build on
> i686 with the normal internal toolchain and bash builds without problems
> here.

I do frequently get errors when building bash. Perhaps in one out of
three builds, compilation of bash aborts. This is always easily fixed by
typing 'make bash', followed by 'make' to continue the build. My guess
is that it is a problem with parallel builds. We use BR2_JLEVEL=4.


Sven