Unable to compile 3.8.2

[bkauler]

I compiled 3.7 and earlier OK. However, with 3.8.2 get:

configure: error: cannot find sources (Limine) in ../limine-3.8.2 or ..

...that's when configuring in the OpenEmbedded/Yocto environment.

I am cross-compiling in OpenEmbedded/Yocto, which does the build in a separate directory outside of the source. You might be interested to see the recipe:

# Recipe created by recipetool
# recipetool create -o limine_3.8.2.bb https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine/releases/download/v3.8.2/limine-3.8.2.tar.gz

SUMMARY = "x86/x86_64 BIOS/UEFI bootloader"
HOMEPAGE = "https://limine-bootloader.org/"

LICENSE = "UCB & GPLv3"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=566da3e4be60cd868e42cb88c9c0ddd3 \
                    file://stivale/LICENSE.md;md5=21e2e2557201f26b907e5694c9e179b9 \
                    file://libgcc-binaries/COPYING.RUNTIME;md5=fe60d87048567d4fe8c8a0ed2448bcc8 \
                    file://libgcc-binaries/COPYING;md5=64305ff51f34d0aca60d187e21a09d59 \
                    file://libgcc-binaries/COPYING3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                    file://limine-efi/COPYING;md5=c27a4b4a954b36c8afddf7587fd749be \
                    file://freestanding_headers/LICENSE.md;md5=9621911223dde43748ad798e3804a3ed"

SRC_URI = "https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine/releases/download/v${PV}/limine-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://remove-ext4-encrypt-warning.patch"

SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b1076ccefa6412d52b422ef4da5881b8"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "08b2675e3190d2670668d42fac7a239dd7e1a3ccd44da44506623a50dc373ab1"

inherit autotools

# need 'paste' in coreutils...
# dont think need gnu-efi as it is builtin to limine source... ditto zlib
DEPENDS = "gnu-efi mtools mtools-native nasm-native zlib-native zlib coreutils-native"

EXTRA_OECONF = ""

...showing that as I have an extra question. Those dependencies could be reduced. The ones with "-native" run in the host OS and are required for the build. So I guess nasm-native is no longer required?

I changed a line in the recipe:

inherit autotools-brokensep

...which causes the build to happen in the source code, but still no go:

configure: error: cannot find sources (Limine) in . or ..

Do you know what has changed since 3.7 that could be causing this configure failure?

Note, target is gcc 9.3.0, configured for nocona CPU (one of the earlier x86_64) and glibc 2.33.

[bkauler]

OK, I testing compiling earlier versions in OpenEmbedded:

3.7.1 OK 3.7.3 OK 3.8 FAIL

...failure is that same configure error.

I'm looking at the source and I can't see why configure is failing. What has changed between 3.7.3 and 3.8?

[mintsuki]

Hello. In preparation for the aarch64 port, the build system has been slightly changed starting in 3.8.

By default, it does not build anything as described in the README.md. You'll probably want to pass --enable-all to configure in order to build all ports (IA-32-UEFI, x86-64-UEFI, and BIOS) as before.

[mintsuki]

gnu-efi is not needed as Limine does not use gnu-efi, but rather its built-in limine-efi fork. A nasm that runs on the machine performing the build is still required. No runtime dependency is necessary (other than glibc for limine-deploy).

[mintsuki]

So I guess this line:

DEPENDS = "gnu-efi mtools mtools-native nasm-native zlib-native zlib coreutils-native"

could be shortened to

DEPENDS = "mtools-native nasm-native coreutils-native"

[mintsuki]

Out of tree builds are not broken.

[bkauler]

I guess we can close this.

[bkauler]

I stayed on 3.7.3, until now, as want that new 3.9.2! Still have the same problem with configure saying it cannot find the source. I examined the log, and see also it complained that version.sh is missing.

I messed around a bit, found a version.sh online and tried to use that, no go. OpenEmbedded rebuilds the configure script. I changed the recipe so that it will use the existing configure script, and that works. In a cross-compile environment, it is probably best to let OE do its default behaviour; however, using the existing configure does work.

Here is the working recipe:

# Recipe created by recipetool
# recipetool create -o limine_3.9.2.bb https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine/releases/download/v3.9.2/limine-3.9.2.tar.gz

SUMMARY = "x86/x86_64 BIOS/UEFI bootloader"
HOMEPAGE = "https://limine-bootloader.org/"

LICENSE = "UCB & GPLv3"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=566da3e4be60cd868e42cb88c9c0ddd3 \
                    file://stivale/LICENSE.md;md5=21e2e2557201f26b907e5694c9e179b9 \
                    file://libgcc-binaries/COPYING.RUNTIME;md5=fe60d87048567d4fe8c8a0ed2448bcc8 \
                    file://libgcc-binaries/COPYING;md5=64305ff51f34d0aca60d187e21a09d59 \
                    file://libgcc-binaries/COPYING3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                    file://freestanding-headers/LICENSE.md;md5=9621911223dde43748ad798e3804a3ed \
                    file://limine-efi/COPYING;md5=c27a4b4a954b36c8afddf7587fd749be"

SRC_URI = "https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine/releases/download/v${PV}/limine-${PV}.tar.gz \
           file://remove-ext4-encrypt-warning.patch"

SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b1f6f2e46d5d1ec4476ae3ff9df33079"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "546cff6c94e40c7996581b60e350b286321463bc282dabf111e0ed6d796fa6e9"

inherit autotools

DEPENDS = "mtools-native nasm-native coreutils-native"

EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-all"

#complains that version.sh missing, try hack...
XXXdo_configure_prepend() {
 cp -f ${WORKDIR}/version.sh ${S}/
 sed -i '/version\.sh/d' ${S}/GNUmakefile.in
}

#give up rebuilding with autotools, just run existing configure script...
do_configure() {
 oe_runconf
}

[mintsuki]

If all is well, this along with the addition of support for fslabel:// should be up in 3.10

[mintsuki]

There was a minor issue with the version.sh script in 3.10. Fixed in 3.10.1