Hi Sumit,
Hi Ryan,
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 21:05, Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm migrating from Warrior to Dunfell and I'm getting a curious build failure in gcc-sanitizers.
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> Here's the full gory detail:
> https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/nh4cDKMvgS/
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> However, the main error is this:
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> | In file included from ../../../../../../../../../work-shared/gcc-arm-8.3-r2019.03/git/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc:193:
> | ../../../../../../../../../work-shared/gcc-arm-8.3-r2019.03/git/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_internal_defs.h:317:72: error: size of array 'assertion_failed__1152' is negative
> | typedef char IMPL_PASTE(assertion_failed_##_, line)[2*(int)(pred)-1]
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> I have no idea where to begin with this. I don't even know why gcc-sanitizers is included in the build, what it does, or why I need it. I'm building an image with dev packages and gcc, so I guess that's why.
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> I've hacked meta-arm to patch sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc to null out the macros and that builds fine. I'm sure it won't work, should someone want to use it, mind you.
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> Is there something obvious that I should be doing as part of a Warrior -> Dunfell migration to get this to work?
I would suggest you to switch to GCC 9.2 Arm toolchain for Dunfell.
RPB does the same [1].
I can do that, I have no reason to use 8.3 other than it's the default. Is my problem a known issue with 8.3, or is moving to 9.2 a general suggestion?
Thanks for the pointer.
-Sumit
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> note: Warrior used meta-linaro-toolchain and for Dunfell, it's moved to meta-arm-toolchain.
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> Regards,
> Ryan.