I've built a Linux system running on an ARMv7 chip and it works surprisingly well, but I have run into a problem with native builds.
First I bootstrapped by cross-compiling on an x86-64 system, and now I thought I'd rebuild everything natively and run tests, etc.
The issue I'm running into affects projects which do certain things which autoconf projects tend to do. I've run into this issue in several components, like gmake and m4, but I'll focus on gmake here (the behavior is exactly the same for the other affected projects). Python, nginx, uwsgi, perl, etc., build without any issues.
This is the basic order of things I'm doing:
$ tar xjf ~/download/make-4.2.1.tar.bz2
$ cd make-4.2.1
$ ./configure
Up until this point everything works great — it finds the native compiler I built with the cross-compiler, and it also finds all the cross-built tools (sed, gawk, etc). The issue is that when I run "make" it immediately throws an error:
$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jan/tmp/make-4.2.1'
Making all in glob
make[1]: *** [Makefile:798: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jan/tmp/make-4.2.1'
make: *** [Makefile:534: all] Error 2
As one can see, it essentially doesn't do anything at all; it claims to be going into the glob subdirectory, but it never gets there.
Running
$ make --trace
.. yields:
Makefile:573: update target 'config.h' due to: stamp-h1
test -f config.h || rm -f stamp-h1
test -f config.h || make stamp-h1
Makefile:534: update target 'all' due to: config.h
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jan/tmp/make-4.2.1'
Makefile:798: target 'all-recursive' does not exist
fail=; \
if (target_option=k; case ${target_option-} in ?) ;; *) echo "am__make_running_with_option: internal error: invalid" "target option '${target_option-}' specified" >&2; exit 1;; esac; has_opt=no; sane_makeflags=$MAKEFLAGS; if { if test -z '1'; then false; elif test -n 'armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf'; then true; elif test -n '4.2.1' && test -n '/home/jan/tmp/make-4.2.1'; then true; else false; fi; }; then sane_makeflags=$MFLAGS; else case $MAKEFLAGS in *\\[\ \ ]*) bs=\\; sane_makeflags=`printf '%s\n' "$MAKEFLAGS" | sed "s/$bs$bs[$bs $bs ]*//g"`;; esac; fi; skip_next=no; strip_trailopt () { flg=`printf '%s\n' "$flg" | sed "s/$1.*$//"`; }; for flg in $sane_makeflags; do test $skip_next = yes && { skip_next=no; continue; }; case $flg in *=*|--*) continue;; -*I) strip_trailopt 'I'; skip_next=yes;; -*I?*) strip_trailopt 'I';; -*O) strip_trailopt 'O'; skip_next=yes;; -*O?*) strip_trailopt 'O';; -*l) strip_trailopt 'l'; skip_next=yes;; -*l?*) strip_trailopt 'l';; -[dEDm]) skip_next=yes;; -[JT]) skip_next=yes;; esac; case $flg in *$target_option*) has_opt=yes; break;; esac; done; test $has_opt = yes); then \
failcom='fail=yes'; \
else \
failcom='exit 1'; \
fi; \
dot_seen=no; \
target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \
case "all-recursive" in \
distclean-* | maintainer-clean-*) list='glob config po doc w32' ;; \
*) list='glob config po doc ' ;; \
esac; \
for subdir in $list; do \
echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \
if test "$subdir" = "."; then \
dot_seen=yes; \
local_target="$target-am"; \
else \
local_target="$target"; \
fi; \
(CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd $subdir && make $local_target) \
|| eval $failcom; \
done; \
if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \
make "$target-am" || exit 1; \
fi; test -z "$fail"
Making all in glob
make[1]: *** [Makefile:798: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jan/tmp/make-4.2.1'
make: *** [Makefile:534: all] Error 2
I kind of know where this fails, but I don't understand why. Near the bottom there's a section:
(CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd $subdir && make $local_target)
If I change that to:
(printf "hello\n" && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && printf "world\n" && cd $subdir && make $local_target)
.. and rerun the whole line, then it outputs:
Making all in glob
hello
exit
In other words, it doesn't seem to be getting past the CDPATH=... part, which is confusing to me. I checked at least one other project in detail and it's the same logic which fails in that too.
All components are newish (if not the very latest stable version, it's just one or two versions behind (GCC 7.2.0, gmake 4.2.1, bash 4.4, etc)). I'm using glibc and, although it's a busybox system, several of the tools have been replaced by coreutils tools. And, as I mentioned previously, I'm using bash (with SHELL set to /bin/bash).
I've googled around quite a bit to look for solutions; the only tip I found was for a problem which was only vaguely similar to mine and the solution was to run autoreconf. I obviously tried that, but it made no difference.
What could be causing the build to fail?
