I'm in the process of building the Open Embedded/Angstrom build environment for my SAM9G25-EK dev board. I was following the instructions as listed on the Linux4SAM website here: http://www.at91.com/linux4sam/bin/view/ ... m_for_AT91. While building the base-image set of packages, I had the following error while it was attempting to build the python package:

x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: directory": No such file or directory
<command-line>: warning: missing terminating " character
./Modules/getbuildinfo.c: In function '_Py_svnversion':
./Modules/getbuildinfo.c:48: error: missing terminating " character
./Modules/getbuildinfo.c:48: error: expected expression before ';'
token
make: *** [Modules/getbuildinfo.o] Error 1

I found out that there is a patch that needs to be applied to python for it to build correctly if you are using Subversion 1.7 or above. A better description of the problem is here: http://bugs.python.org/issue6094, and the patch is here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/150986ab3db2/. If you are using the OE stable branch as instructed, you have to apply the patch by hand; there's only a few lines to change so it's not too difficult.

Could someone update the instructions on the Linux4SAM website to include the patch?

Thanks,
Bryan

I had one more error that I wanted to note. This snapshot of OE wants to use fakeroot 1.12.4, which is no longer available at the main mirror. I fixed by making the following change in fakeroot_1.12.4.bb (located in openembedded/recipes/fakeroot):

#SRC_URI = "\
# ${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_${PV}.tar.gz \
# file://configure-libtool.patch;patch=1 \
#"
SRC_URI = "\
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debi ... fakeroot_${PV}.tar.gz \
file://configure-libtool.patch;patch=1 \
"

I added an entry for this site in checksums.ini (located in openembedded/conf). So I added the following lines to checksums.ini:

[http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100601T041240Z/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.12.4.tar.gz]
md5=2eb5e48d0529b736775c0fea00e56aa6
sha256=11c6a1851d9f1797419ca295ddab9d5197a034cb717cf3905276d81507f0932b

The build is still chugging along, about half way through the base-image build. If there are any other tweaks to be made, I'll add it to the list.