Build on master fails

mywatch · January 26, 2019 at 7:24 AM

This is my build system: Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

This is my box: Minix Neo U9-H (which has an Amlogic S912)

So I tried to build on master with that:

Code

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install gcc make git unzip wget xz-utils
git config --global user.email "me@email.com"
git config --global user.name "my-username"
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv.git
cd ~/LibreELEC.tv
PROJECT=Amlogic DEVICE=S912 ARCH=arm tools/download-tool
PROJECT=Amlogic DEVICE=S912 ARCH=arm BUILDER_NAME=mywatch BUILDER_VERSION=001 make image

This is the build log, containing the errors:

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mywatch · January 26, 2019 at 9:47 AM

I also tried tag 8.95.002

Code

git checkout 8.95.002
PROJECT=Amlogic DEVICE=S912 ARCH=arm tools/download-tool
PROJECT=Amlogic DEVICE=S912 ARCH=arm BUILDER_NAME=mywatch BUILDER_VERSION=001 make image

This is the build log, containing the errors:

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**Klojum** · January 26, 2019 at 9:59 AM Official Post

@mywatch

Please use external pastebin website if you want to share log files or any other larger output. It's easier to read and it will keep our forum server lean. Thanks.

mywatch · January 26, 2019 at 10:06 AM

Thanks Klojum for the hint. I updated my posts.

**vpeter** · January 26, 2019 at 10:28 AM

Isn't this error related to old 3.14 kernel? In this case try with CoreELEC which is more supported?

mywatch · January 26, 2019 at 12:20 PM

But I want to use LibreELEC, not CoreELEC

**vpeter** · January 26, 2019 at 12:40 PM

Quote from mywatch

But I want to use LibreELEC, not CoreELEC

Then suffer with this

Or at least use patch from them: CoreELEC/kodi-ce-113-remove-egl-debug.patch at master · CoreELEC/CoreELEC · GitHub

mywatch · January 26, 2019 at 12:44 PM

But that would mean 8.95.002 and 8.95.003 both don't support S912?

I can't believe that.

**chewitt** · January 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM Official Post

Kodi will not support Linux releases that use libhybris and Android mali libs and LE team made the decision to not release any official images without support. As we are not planning to release 9.0 images for S912 we are not building them and the known issue that you ran into has not been fixed. If someone would like to send us a PR with the correct fix (adding support for GL debug .. not removing Kodi code) we can merge it.

NB: LE will have proper support for S912 hardware once we bump to mainline kernels in the near future.

mywatch · January 26, 2019 at 3:03 PM

chewitt Thanks alot for the explanation. What are the mainline kernels?

**chewitt** · January 26, 2019 at 3:08 PM Official Post

It means we stop using the older Amlogic kernel sources (full of proprietary low-quality drivers etc.) and start using the latest (aka mainline) Linux kernel with modern and higher-quality drivers.