Build environment

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

                     Hello.

 

Now, build environment is only Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic).

But some time ago, the build environment was Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial).

 

How can I build armbian on Xenial?

 

Maybe, I have to change branch to another, or checkout to certain commit?

 

Help me please...

[Igor]

https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/lib/general.sh#L541-L554

 

by adding a parameter NO_HOST_RELEASE_CHECK="yes"

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

Thank you for answer.

 

I have additional information.

I've built the image.

 

But I can't boot.

 

There are errors during building:
 

Quote

 

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  debconf-utils dirmngr html2text libksba8 libnpth0
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 422 kB of archives.
After this operation, 976 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial/universe armhf debconf-utils all 1.5.58ubuntu1
  Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'
Ign:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial-updates/main armhf libksba8 armhf 1.3.3-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
Err:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial/main armhf libnpth0 armhf 1.2-3
  Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'
Ign:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial-updates/main armhf dirmngr armhf 2.1.11-6ubuntu2.1
Err:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial/universe armhf html2text armhf 1.3.2a-18
  Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'
Err:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial-updates/main armhf libksba8 armhf 1.3.3-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'
Err:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com xenial-updates/main armhf dirmngr armhf 2.1.11-6ubuntu2.1
  Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/universe/d/debconf/debconf-utils_1.5.58ubuntu1_all.deb Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/libk/libksba/libksba8_1.3.3-1ubuntu0.16.04.1_armhf.deb Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/n/npth/libnpth0_1.2-3_armhf.deb Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/g/gnupg2/dirmngr_2.1.11-6ubuntu2.1_armhf.deb Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/universe/h/html2text/html2text_1.3.2a-18_armhf.deb Could not resolve 'ports.ubuntu.com'

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

 

What it means?
And why it happens?

[Igor]

6 hours ago, Dmitriy Zhuk said:

What it means?

That something is wrong outside of the script. Either with Ubuntu services or your DNS.

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

              Hello friends.

 

Now I return to my task.

 

And I still can't compile on Ubuntu 16.04

I have such error:

 

[ o.k. ] Compiling u-boot [ 2018.05 ]
[ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ compilation.sh:114 ]
[ error ] Could not find required toolchain [ arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc > 7.0 ]
[ o.k. ] Process terminated

 

Could you please advise me, how to compile, or checkout to old branch, when environment was Ubuntu 16.04?

 

Thank you in advance.

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

I've manually downloaded toolchain, and now I have such error:

  CC      kernel/bounds.s
/home/dmitriy/clock/build/cache/sources/linux-sun8i/sun8i/./Kbuild:35: recipe for target 'kernel/bounds.s' failed
Makefile:988: recipe for target 'prepare0' failed
[ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ compilation.sh:360 ]
[ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ]
[ o.k. ] Process terminated

 

Why? How to avoid it?

[Igor]

2 hours ago, Dmitriy Zhuk said:

Why?

Start with a clean build and use recommended build options. If you go outside those areas, expect troubles and the problem ti fix things is yours.

If you don't want to use Ubuntu Bionic, use Docker which should run also on Debian host.

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

OKay.

 

But where can I take old build, witch was a few years ago with Ubuntu 16.04  HOST OS?

[Igor]

3 hours ago, Dmitriy Zhuk said:

But where can I take old build

 

All code is here https://github.com/armbian/build but again, you will only waste your own time, not mine, for doing things that are pointless. Use recommended option. It will work. If you want the impossible, hire people.

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

Yes, I've found what I wanted.

Thank you.