latest VM images fail to compile for ARM

[Tim Kientzle]

> On Nov 22, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Dan Raymond <draymond at foxvalley.net> wrote:
> 
> On 11/22/2014 6:57 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> 
>>> On Nov 22, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Dan Raymond <draymond at foxvalley.net <mailto:draymond at foxvalley.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  I am getting errors while building xdev. 
>> 
>> What errors?
> 
> The first error was that it couldn't find 'gperf'.  When I ran it again it gave me a different error but I don't recall the details.  Let me know if you need a log and I will set up another VM to get it.

I suspect the culprit is:

   r272849 emaste: Build gperf only if we’re using g++ (not clang++)

It seems that the xdev targets need to be updated to build gperf as a prerequisite for GCC.  You can work around this by manually building and installing gperf.

   $ cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf
   $ make && make install

As described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3040801 <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3040801>, trying to build GCC without gperf installed leaves some broken files behind, so you need to clean out the obj directory before trying again lest you encounter other problems:

   $ rm -rf /usr/obj/armv6-freebsd/

Cheers,

Tim