sanity.bbclass: add test for gcc < 5.0

It is known that the version of gcc in CentOS-7 (4.8.5) causes builds to fail.

Add a test for BUILD_CC == 'gcc' and gcc < 5.0 and recommend using
scripts/install-buildtools or user built buildtools-extended-tarball.

NOTE: another solution is to install devtoolset-6+ from scl [1], but
this is a rather large install (> 1 Gb) and fairly invasive.

[1] https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6/

Signed-off-by: Tim Orling <timothy.t.orling@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index 0cf955a3414544ac05e762a5ceb57f342789d5ce..a1cb8c6b88aa3ebe8010fc857c4a76ea3ca4cdc4 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -521,6 +521,29 @@ def check_wsl(d):
             return "OpenEmbedded doesn't work under WSL at this time, sorry"
     return None
 
+# The gcc version in CentOS-7 (4.8.5) is known to be a problem.
+# Require at least gcc version 5.0.
+#
+# This can be fixed on CentOS-7 with devtoolset-6+
+# https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6/
+#
+# A less invasive fix is with scripts/install-buildtools (or with user
+# built buildtools-extended-tarball)
+#
+def check_gcc_version(sanity_data):
+    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+    import subprocess
+    build_cc = sanity_data.getVar('BUILD_CC').strip()
+    if build_cc == "gcc":
+        try:
+            result = subprocess.check_output(["gcc", "--version"], stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL).decode('utf-8')
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+            return "Unable to execute gcc --version, exit code %d\n%s\n" % (e.returncode, e.output)
+        version = result.split()[2]
+        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("5.0"):
+            return "Your version of gcc is older than 5.0 and will break builds. Please install a newer version of gcc (you could use the project's buildtools-extended-tarball or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
+    return None
+
 # Tar version 1.24 and onwards handle overwriting symlinks correctly
 # but earlier versions do not; this needs to work properly for sstate
 # Version 1.28 is needed so opkg-build works correctly when reproducibile builds are enabled
@@ -535,7 +558,7 @@ def check_tar_version(sanity_data):
     if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("1.24"):
         return "Your version of tar is older than 1.24 and has bugs which will break builds. Please install a newer version of tar (1.28+). You could use the project's buildtools-tarball from our last release or use scripts/install-buildtools\n"
     if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("1.28"):
-        return "Your version of tar is older than 1.28 and does not have the support needed to enable reproducible builds. Please install a newer version of tar (you could use the projects buildtools-tarball from our last release or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
+        return "Your version of tar is older than 1.28 and does not have the support needed to enable reproducible builds. Please install a newer version of tar (you could use the project's buildtools-tarball from our last release or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
     return None
 
 # We use git parameters and functionality only found in 1.7.8 or later
@@ -634,6 +657,7 @@ def check_sanity_version_change(status, d):
     except ImportError as e:
         status.addresult('Your Python 3 is not a full install. Please install the module %s (see the Getting Started guide for further information).\n' % e.name)
 
+    status.addresult(check_gcc_version(d))
     status.addresult(check_make_version(d))
     status.addresult(check_patch_version(d))
     status.addresult(check_tar_version(d))