[U-Boot] "Kbuild:43: recipe for target 'lib/asm-offsets.s' failed"

[Chris Packham]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, 2:29 PM R White, <pwmvsi at gmail.com> wrote:

> *People,*
>
>
> *Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?  Am I missing something?*
>
>
> *I have even reloaded the machine, everything.  *
> *Rick*
>
> ======================================================================================
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> ricky at debian:/embedded/u-boot-2017.09$ sudo apt-get install
> device-tree-compiler
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> device-tree-compiler is already the newest version (1.4.2-1).
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
> ricky at debian:/embedded/u-boot-2017.09$ echo $ARCH
> arm
> ricky at debian:/embedded/u-boot-2017.09$ CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-
> ricky at debian:/embedded/u-boot-2017.09$ export ARCH
> ricky at debian:/embedded/u-boot-2017.09$ export CROSS_COMPILE
> ricky at debian:/embedded/u-boot-2017.09$ sudo make am335x_evm_config
> #
> # configuration written to .config
> #
> ricky at debian:/embedded/u-boot-2017.09$ sudo make
> scripts/kconfig/conf  --silentoldconfig Kconfig
>   CHK     include/config.h
>   CFG     u-boot.cfg
>   GEN     include/autoconf.mk
>   GEN     include/autoconf.mk.dep
>   CFG     spl/u-boot.cfg
>   GEN     spl/include/autoconf.mk
>   CHK     include/config/uboot.release
>   CHK     include/generated/version_autogenerated.h
>   CHK     include/generated/timestamp_autogenerated.h
>   UPD     include/generated/timestamp_autogenerated.h
>   CC      lib/asm-offsets.s
> lib/asm-offsets.c:1:0: error: bad value (armv5) for -march= switch
>  /*
>

Not sure but my guess would be that because you're  running sudo the
environment isn't propagating.

You shouldn't need to run sudo make for anything in u-boot (you might have
to run "sudo make mrproper" now because there will be generated files owned
by root).