linaro_android_build_cmds.sh fails. needs to add 'file' package dependency

[Sean Payne]

I tried to build linaro android from source in a 64-bit 12.04 chroot and got the following error message:

rebuilts/tools/gcc-sdk/ar: line 29: file: command not found
ERROR: prebuilts/tools/gcc-sdk/../../gcc/linux-x86/host/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7-4.6/bin/x86_64-linux-ar only run on 64-bit linux
make: *** [out/host/linux-x86/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libhost_intermediates/libhost.a] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

I expected this to build fine as I am running on a 64-bit linux.

I did some more research and found in the third response here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17014090/gcc-thinks-im-running-x86 that android build detects cpu architecture by using file on $SHELL (!).

I did not have the 'file' package installed.

So I then did and apt-get install file, and this got me past this issue.

A better solution is to add the 'file' package to the PKGS variable in linaro_android_build_cmds.sh

[Sean Payne (sean-d-payne)]

Further down in the build, I found that bc is a dependency, so should be added as well

2 warnings generated.
  BC kernel/timeconst.h
/bin/sh: 1: bc: not found
make[3]: *** [kernel/timeconst.h] Error 127
make[2]: *** [kernel] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

[Chase Qi (chase-qi)]

Migrated to bugzilla:
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423