Hello!
I'm trying to build bootable Debian SD card using my Fedora 23 (32-bit) and I have encountered a problem:
I did:
yum install gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabihf ncurses-dev uboot-mkimage build-essential git
and it gave me:
No package gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabihf available.
No package ncurses-dev available.
No package uboot-mkimage available.
No package build-essential available.
Package git-2.5.0-3.fc23.i686 is already installed, skipping
But I googled that toolchain can also be set up with:
yum install gcc-arm-linux-gnu
source (http://"http://linux-sunxi.org/Toolchain")
which actually doesn't solve my problem
as I try to build u-boot with:
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
I get:
/bin/sh: arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc: command not found
/home/gburza/a20-olimex/u-boot-sunxi/./Kbuild:34: recipe for target 'lib/asm-offsets.s' failed
make[1]: *** [lib/asm-offsets.s] Error 127
Makefile:1006: recipe for target 'prepare0' failed
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
I can't really find how to do this, so if there's anyone with knowledge, I will listen carefully! :)
For Fedora 22 and later, you should use dnf instead of yum but the rest is the generally the same.
ncurses-devel
uboot-tools
Tab completion works pretty good. Typing
yum install ncurses-d«tab»
will generally show available matches. Works as long as the first part is valid.
More you may need later
libusb libusbx-devel libcurl-devel
You found the alternate toolchain information, but did not follow that through to the actual build. You need to use
CROSS_COMPILE=CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu-
at least for Fedora 21 and 22. That got a working linux bootable sd card for me using Fedora 20. From my related experience with (see https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=4933.0 (https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=4933.0)), the legacy U-Boot and sunxi 3.4 kernel can not be compiled with anything newer than gcc4.x. Fedora 22 has gcc5. I assume Fedora 23 will be at least gcc5 as well. You will need to get (download and build) a separate gcc4.x to do the build. The mainline U-Boot and kernel compile fine with gcc5, but (as per referenced post) I have other issues apparently with the rootfs and/or config flags doing that.