On 30 June 2013 12:02, Philip Balister <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/30/2013 11:56 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> On 27 June 2013 10:08, Mark Hatle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> See GNU Savannah bug 30612 -- make 3.82 is known to be broken.
>>>
>>> A number of vendors are providing a modified version, so checking
>>> for just the version string is not enough.  We also need to check
>>> if the patch for the issue has been applied.  We use a modified
>>> version of the reproduced to check for the issue.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>> +
>>> +        if status != 0:
>>> +            return "Your version of make 3.82 is broken. Please revert to 
>>> 3.81 or install a patched version.\n"
>>
>>
>> Instead of returning an error and asking the user to manually update
>> their own 'make', wouldn't it be better if bitbake simply built its
>> own known-to-be-working -native version instead? In this way a good,
>> working version of 'make' could be installed in a potential SDK's
>> sysroot as well?
>
> Is the broken version good enough to build a working version?


In my case that's what I did (i.e. I used make-3.82 to build and
install early in my $PATH make-3.81). I was then able to bitbake again
which went to completion successfully.
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