Task 415 (virtual:native:/home/user/Yocto/Poky/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/automake/automake_1.15.bb, do_compile) failed with exit code '1'

Question

I'm trying to build an image with yocto, I did everything according instructions from https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html

I've already done the pre-configuration

 $ git clone http://git.yoctoproject.org/git/poky
 $ cd poky
 $ git checkout -b fido origin/fido
 $ source oe-init-build-env

and I get the following errors when running : bitbake -k core-image-sato

ERROR: Function failed: do_compile (log file is located at 
/home/user/Yocto/Poky/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/automake- 
native/1.15-r0/temp/log.do_compile.2660)
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: 
/home/user/Yocto/Poky/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/automake- 
native/1.15-r0/temp/log.do_compile.2660
ERROR: Task 415 
(virtual:native:/home/user/Yocto/Poky/poky/meta/recipes- 
devtools/automake/automake_1.15.bb, do_compile) failed with exit code '1'

Does anyone know how to fix it?

Answer 1

Unless there is a particular reason, you want to use fido I will recommend using the more recent releases like sumo or rocko at least. You might also want to take a look at something like yoe-distro which also allows to build in a Docker environment and thus not requiring a downgrade of OS to something which Yocto/OpenEmbedded might require.

Answer 2

It seems you are building an old release (1.8), its important that a tested distribution is used on build host. There are here Please make sure that your host distro is among the one in this list