sanity: Add test for functional c++ toolchain

Users reported issues caused by missing the right libstdc++-version-dev.
A new function 'check_cpp_toolchain' added in sanity.bbclass to test linking libstdc++

[YOCTO #15712]

(From OE-Core rev: 611c1a26212dfbfe8d0640d9fefe5df49f7b69b8)

Signed-off-by: Christos Gavros <gavrosc@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
index 7b8a497d5a..66693fc9b9 100644
--- a/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
@@ -602,6 +602,28 @@ def drop_v14_cross_builds(d):
                 bb.utils.remove(stamp + "*")
                 bb.utils.remove(workdir, recurse = True)
 
+def check_cpp_toolchain(d):
+    """
+    it checks if the c++ compiling and linking to libstdc++ works properly in the native system
+    """
+    import shlex
+    import subprocess
+
+    cpp_code = """
+    #include <iostream>
+    int main() {
+        std::cout << "Hello, World!" << std::endl;
+        return 0;
+    }
+    """
+
+    cmd = shlex.split(d.getVar("BUILD_CXX")) + ["-x", "c++","-", "-o", "/dev/null", "-lstdc++"]
+    try:
+        subprocess.run(cmd, input=cpp_code, capture_output=True, text=True, check=True)
+        return None
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+        return f"An unexpected issue occurred during the C++ toolchain check: {str(e)}"
+
 def sanity_handle_abichanges(status, d):
     #
     # Check the 'ABI' of TMPDIR
@@ -770,6 +792,9 @@ def check_sanity_version_change(status, d):
     # macOS with default HFS+ file system)
     status.addresult(check_case_sensitive(tmpdir, "TMPDIR"))
 
+    # Check if linking with lstdc++ is failing
+    status.addresult(check_cpp_toolchain(d))
+
 def sanity_check_locale(d):
     """
     Currently bitbake switches locale to en_US.UTF-8 so check that this locale actually exists.