ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes \ ./configure \ --cache-file="/opt/buildroot/output/build/tgt-config.cache" \ --target=arm-linux \ --host=arm-linux \ --build=i386-pc-linux-gnu \ --prefix=/usr \ --exec-prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --disable-gtk-doc \ --disable-nls \ \ --disable-ipv6 \ --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-web100 --disable-ipv6 configure: loading cache /opt/buildroot/output/build/tgt-config.cache checking for a BSD-compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... (cached) mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for arm-linux-strip... (cached) /opt/buildroot/output/staging/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-strip checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... yes checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... 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(cached) yes checking for /opt/buildroot/output/staging/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc -Os -pipe -Os -I/opt/buildroot/output/staging/usr/include -I/opt/buildroot/output/staging/include --sysroot=/opt/buildroot/output/staging/ -isysroot /opt/buildroot/output/staging -mtune=arm920t -march=armv4t -mabi=aapcs-linux -msoft-float -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of /opt/buildroot/output/staging/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc -Os -pipe -Os -I/opt/buildroot/output/staging/usr/include -I/opt/buildroot/output/staging/include --sysroot=/opt/buildroot/output/staging/ -isysroot /opt/buildroot/output/staging -mtune=arm920t -march=armv4t -mabi=aapcs-linux -msoft-float -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64... (cached) gcc3 checking for library containing strerror... 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(cached) yes checking for working fork... (cached) yes checking for working vfork... (cached) yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... (cached) yes checking for working memcmp... (cached) yes checking for sys/select.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/socket.h... (cached) yes checking types of arguments for select... int,fd_set *,struct timeval * checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void checking for strftime... (cached) yes checking for vprintf... yes checking for _doprnt... no checking for atexit... (cached) yes checking for gettimeofday... (cached) yes checking for memset... (cached) yes checking for pthread_cancel... no checking for select... (cached) yes checking for strchr... (cached) yes checking for strerror... (cached) yes checking for strtol... (cached) yes checking for usleep... (cached) yes checking for snprintf... (cached) yes checking for inet_pton... (cached) yes checking for inet_ntop... (cached) yes checking for gettimeofday... (cached) yes checking *printf() support for %lld... checking *printf() support for %qd... checking for bool... (cached) yes checking size of bool... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (bool) See `config.log' for more details. make: *** [/opt/buildroot/output/build/iperf-2.0.3/.stamp_configured] error 77
Some other package populates the config cache with the (presumably wrong) fact that we have a bool type in C: checking for bool... (cached) yes If I try it (with an empty cache) I get: checking for bool... no checking size of bool... 0 So please provide more info about your setup (your buildroot .config)
Move milestone to 2010.05 since enhancements will not be handled before the release of 2010.02.
No feedback for 2 months and unable to reproduce - Closing. Please reopen and provide more info if you still see this isue