[U-Boot] binman: 'module' object has no attribute 'FinaliseOutputDir'

[Kevin Hilman]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On 1 June 2017 at 07:55, Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>
>>> On 31 May 2017 at 12:13, Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com> wrote:
>>>> While trying to build v2017.05 for sun5i-r8-chip (CHIP_defconfig), I get
>>>> the following build error.  I'm not familiar with binman, so not sure
>>>> what I should be looking for.
>>>>
>>>> $ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- make
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>  LD      spl/drivers/serial/built-in.o
>>>>  LD      spl/drivers/built-in.o
>>>>  LD      spl/common/built-in.o
>>>>  LD      spl/lib/built-in.o
>>>>  LD      spl/u-boot-spl
>>>>  OBJCOPY spl/u-boot-spl-nodtb.bin
>>>>  COPY    spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>>>>  MKSUNXI spl/sunxi-spl.bin
>>>>  BINMAN  u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
>>>>  binman: 'module' object has no attribute 'FinaliseOutputDir'
>>>>  Makefile:1107: recipe for target 'u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin' failed
>>>>  make: *** [u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin] Error 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If it matters, compiler is: gcc version 5.3.1 20160412 (Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.05)
>>>
>>> Do you know what version of python you are using? I cannot imagine
>>> what is happening here.
>>
>> $ python
>> Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10)
>> [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>
>>
>> and fwiw, this is on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
>
> That's what I am using too. This is really mystifying. Are you able to
> debug the python code?

If you give me some pointers/suggestions, I'd be glad to, but I don't
currently have much time to go wandering too deep into the uboot
weeds.

Kevin