{"id":2802,"date":"2017-10-23T21:35:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2018-02-22T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:06:25","slug":"problems-with-esp-open-sdk-build-on-debian-jessie-esp8266-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Problems with #esp-open-sdk build on Debian jessie #ESP8266 solved"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had problems lately to build the esp-open-sdk<\/a> on my main Debian machine with Jessie. Very annoying of course as I needed it but I haven’t had time to investigate the problem until today. I post the solution here i case it is useful for someone else.<\/p>\n

The symptoms is that the build stops quite early in the build process spitting out something like this<\/p>\n

[INFO ] =================================================================
\n[INFO ] Retrieving needed toolchain components’ tarballs
\n[INFO ] Retrieving needed toolchain components’ tarballs: done in 208.37s (at 03:41)
\n[INFO ] =================================================================
\n[INFO ] Extracting and patching toolchain components
\n[ERROR]
\n[ERROR] >>
\n[ERROR] >> Build failed in step ‘Extracting and patching toolchain components’
\n[ERROR] >> called in step ‘(top-level)’
\n[ERROR] >>
\n[ERROR] >> Error happened in: CT_DoExecLog[scripts\/functions@257]
\n[ERROR] >> called from: CT_Extract[scripts\/functions@982]
\n[ERROR] >> called from: do_binutils_extract[scripts\/build\/binutils\/binutils.sh@38]
\n[ERROR] >> called from: main[scripts\/crosstool-NG.sh@615]
\n[ERROR] >>
\n[ERROR] >> For more info on this error, look at the file: ‘build.log’
\n[ERROR] >> There is a list of known issues, some with workarounds, in:
\n[ERROR] >> ‘share\/doc\/crosstool-ng\/crosstool-ng-1.22.0-60-g37b07f6\/B – Known issues.txt’
\n[ERROR]
\n[ERROR] (elapsed: 4:12.94)
\n[04:15] \/ ct-ng:152: recipe for target ‘build’ failed
\nmake[2]: *** [build] Error 2
\nmake[2]: Leaving directory ‘\/home\/esp\/esp-open-sdk\/crosstool-NG’
\n..\/Makefile:132: recipe for target ‘_toolchain’ failed
\nmake[1]: *** [_toolchain] Error 2
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory ‘\/home\/esp\/esp-open-sdk\/crosstool-NG’
\nMakefile:128: recipe for target ‘\/home\/esp\/esp-open-sdk\/xtensa-lx106-elf\/bin\/xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc’ failed
\nmake: *** [\/home\/esp\/esp-open-sdk\/xtensa-lx106-elf\/bin\/xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc] Error 2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Investigating the crosstools-NG\/build.log (less crosstool-NG\/build.log)<\/p>\n

[DEBUG] ==> Executing: ‘touch’ ‘\/home\/esp\/esp-open-sdk\/crosstool-NG\/.build\/sr
\nc\/.ncurses-6.0.patched’
\n[DEBUG] ==> Executing: ‘rm’ ‘-f’ ‘\/home\/esp\/esp-open-sdk\/crosstool-NG\/.build\/
\nsrc\/.ncurses-6.0.patching’
\n[DEBUG] ==> Executing: ‘touch’ ‘\/home\/esp\/esp-open-sdk\/crosstool-NG\/.build\/sr
\nc\/.binutils-2.25.1.extracting’
\n[DEBUG] Entering ‘\/home\/esp\/esp-open-sdk\/crosstool-NG\/.build\/src’
\n[EXTRA] Extracting ‘binutils-2.25.1’
\n[DEBUG] ==> Executing: ‘mkdir’ ‘-p’ ‘binutils-2.25.1’
\n[DEBUG] ==> Executing: ‘tar’ ‘–strip-components=1’ ‘-C’ ‘binutils-2.25.1’ ‘-xv’ ‘-f’ ‘-‘
\n[FILE ] tar: This does not look like a tar archive
\n[FILE ] tar: Skipping to next header
\n[FILE ] tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
\n[ERROR]
\n[ERROR] >>
\n[ERROR] >> Build failed in step ‘Extracting and patching toolchain components’
\n[ERROR] >> called in step ‘(top-level)’
\n[ERROR] >>
\n[ERROR] >> Error happened in: CT_DoExecLog[scripts\/functions@257]
\n[ERROR] >> called from: CT_Extract[scripts\/functions@982]
\n[ERROR] >> called from: do_binutils_extract[scripts\/build\/binutils\/binutils.sh@38]
\n[ERROR] >> called from: main[scripts\/crosstool-NG.sh@615]
\n[ERROR] >>
\n[ERROR] >> For more info on this error, look at the file: ‘build.log’
\n[ERROR] >> There is a list of known issues, some with workarounds, in:
\n[ERROR] >> ‘share\/doc\/crosstool-ng\/crosstool-ng-1.22.0-60-g37b07f6\/B – Known issues.txt’
\n[ERROR]
\n[ERROR] (elapsed: 4:12.94)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The line<\/p>\n

[DEBUG] ==> Executing: ‘tar’ ‘–strip-components=1’ ‘-C’ ‘binutils-2.25.1’ ‘-xv’ ‘-f’ ‘-‘
\n[FILE ] tar: This does not look like a tar archive<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

says it is a problem with a tarball and testing the binutils tarball under crosstool-NG\/.build\/tarballs shows it really is a problem with the tarball.<\/p>\n

So after some discussions here<\/a> is finally found a solution to the problem.<\/p>\n