Fixed compile of Samba without krb5 in OE

Yesterday I posted about improvements compiling in OpenEmbedded:

https://bkhome.org/news/202101/tweaks-for-openembedded-dunfell.html

EasyOS on the Pi4 does not have samba, as compile failed in OE. Yes, I could compile it in a running EasyOS on the Pi4, but would rather fix it in OE.

I have a 'samba_%.bbappend' file, the main objective being to remove the 'pam' and 'krb5' dependencies. I worked on this recipe this morning. The problem is that instead of 'krb5', the internal 'heimdahl' is used, and this compiles two binaries, that are then executed during compile.

The problem is that the binaries are compiled for the target system, in this case aarch64, whereas the build system is x86_64, so the binaries cannot run.

OE does have a mechanism to handle this. It is possible to compile 'samba-native', that is, samba compiled to run on the build-system, and then use the two binaries from that when compile 'samba'.

Fine, except that exactly how to do this is very poorly documented. The official documentation is very vague. A couple of years ago, I bought a book, "Embedded Linux Systems with the Yocto Project", but found that it also said hardly anything about this. I consider this to be an important topic, yet it seems that many OE experts don't know much about it either.

Perhaps it is explained somewhere, and I have just overlooked it.

Anyway, when I hit this problem, I just use pre-compiled binaries, by compiling the package separately on my build-system.

In the case of samba, that is what Uri has done:

http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/Samba4-4-5-cross-compilation-for-PowerPC-td4710972.html

...not on OE, but I can apply the same principle. This is my 'samba_%.bbappend':

#heimdahl compiles these and want to run them during compile...
FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
SRC_URI_append = "\
  file://${BUILD_ARCH}/asn1_compile \
  file://${BUILD_ARCH}/compile_et"

DEPENDS = "readline virtual/libiconv zlib popt libtalloc libtdb libtevent libldb libaio libtasn1 jansson libbsd gpgme acl gnutls libarchive openldap"

REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = ""

SYSTEMD_PACKAGES = ""
SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-base = ""
SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-ad-dc = ""
SYSTEMD_SERVICE_winbind = ""
SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN}-ad-dc = ""

PACKAGECONFIG = ""

EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-fhs \
                 --with-piddir=/run \
                 --with-sockets-dir=/run/samba \
                 --with-modulesdir=${libdir}/samba \
                 --with-lockdir=${localstatedir}/lib/samba \
                 --with-cachedir=${localstatedir}/lib/samba \
                 --disable-rpath-install \
                 ${@oe.utils.conditional('TARGET_ARCH', 'x86_64', '', '--disable-glusterfs', d)} \
                 --with-cluster-support \
                 --with-profiling-data \
                 --with-libiconv=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}${prefix} \
                 --without-pam --without-sendfile-support \
                 --without-ad-dc  --without-ntvfs-fileserver  --nopyc --nopyo \
                 --without-fam --without-lttng --without-systemd --disable-avahi \
                 --enable-cups --with-acl-support --with-automount --with-quotas \
                 --with-syslog --with-ldap --enable-gnutls --with-gpgme --with-libbsd \
                 --with-libarchive --without-valgrind \
                 --bundled-libraries=!asn1_compile,!compile_et"

RDEPENDS_${PN}-ad-dc = ""

# ref: http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/Samba4-4-5-cross-compilation-for-PowerPC-td4710972.html
export USING_SYSTEM_ASN1_COMPILE = "1"
export ASN1_COMPILE = "${WORKDIR}/${BUILD_ARCH}/asn1_compile"
export USING_SYSTEM_COMPILE_ET = "1"
export COMPILE_ET = "${WORKDIR}/${BUILD_ARCH}/compile_et"

ERROR_QA_remove = "file-rdeps"
WARN_QA_remove = "file-rdeps"

As my build-system is EasyOS x86_64 on a PC, I placed those two 'asn1_compile' and 'compile_et' into meta-quirky/recipes-connectivity/samba/samba/x86_64. I also grabbed the two that were compiled in OE and put them into samba/samba/aarch64. The 'samba_%.bbappend' is in meta-quirky/recipes-connectivity/samba.

Note, 'meta-quirky' is my layer in OE, with all of my customizations and extra packages.

Good, it compiled and installed.

Just a little detail: in OE, HOST_ARCH is "aarch64", that is, the target architecture. Not, as you might think, the build system architecture. We often use the term "host system", but that is misleading with OE, so I use the term "build system".  

Tags: oe