SDK build fails on arch linux

[CIB]

I get this problem upon building binutils:

/home/cib/projects/parallella/srcw/bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo:325: unknown command `colophon'
/home/cib/projects/parallella/srcw/bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo:336: unknown command `cygnus'

Quick google gives me this: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15183

That bug ought to be fixed in the latest version, but apparently it isn't in the distributed one?

[CIB]

[CIB]

I think I get why it's not working. Looking at: https://github.com/parallella/epiphany-sourceware

It seems the stuff in there hasn't been updated from upstream in 2 years. So obviously, tools(such as the newest perl release) stop supporting such an old version. I guess people on "long term distros"(like ubuntu LTS) may be fine, but using arch this is a complete disaster.

[simoncook]

Hi CIB,

I am aware of this issue (I've hit and found the same solution myself yesterday in fact).

We have more up to date repositories (see viewtopic.php?f=13&t=471) which I believe already have the fix for this issue in (if it doesn't there'll soon be a patch added that does fix it). I am just setting up an arch linux system to build and confirm, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

[CIB]

Thanks for your reply. I tried using the more recent repos you suggested and encountered the same issue as in the initial post.

[CIB]

Just a heads up: I installed debian 6 on virtualbox and the SDK built just fine in that.

[Gravis]

[Gravis]

so... what is it?

[CIB]

Install debian 6 in a VM. That's the only way I've gotten it to work.

[simoncook]

I have now cherry-picked some changes from the mainline branches and fixed the rest of the build failures manually. If you update the epiphany-binutils-2.23 branch, this should now work.