The direction_finding_connectionless_rx **works fine with NCS v2.3.0**, but with v2.9.0 get's a link error on dts instance for nrf52833dk:
$ west build -b nrf52833dk/nrf52833 -p
-- west build: making build dir /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build pristine
-- west build: generating a build system
Loading Zephyr module(s) (Zephyr base): sysbuild_default
-- Found Python3: /usr/local/bin/python3.11 (found suitable version "3.11.3", minimum required is "3.8") found components: Interpreter
-- Cache files will be written to: /home/john/.cache/zephyr
-- Found west (found suitable version "1.4.0", minimum required is "0.14.0")
-- Board: nrf52833dk, qualifiers: nrf52833
Parsing /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/share/sysbuild/Kconfig
Loaded configuration '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/_sysbuild/empty.conf'
Merged configuration '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/_sysbuild/empty.conf'
Configuration saved to '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/zephyr/.config'
Kconfig header saved to '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/_sysbuild/autoconf.h'
--
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* Running CMake for direction_finding_connectionless_rx *
********************************************************* Loading Zephyr default modules (Zephyr base). -- Application: /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx -- CMake version: 4.0.1 -- Found Python3: /usr/local/bin/python3 (found suitable version "3.11.3", minimum required is "3.8") found components: Interpreter -- Cache files will be written to: /home/john/.cache/zephyr -- Zephyr version: 3.7.99 (/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr) -- Found west (found suitable version "1.4.0", minimum required is "0.14.0") -- Board: nrf52833dk, qualifiers: nrf52833 -- ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT not set, trying to locate Zephyr SDK
-- Found host-tools: zephyr 0.16.1 (/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.1) -- Found toolchain: zephyr 0.16.1 (/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.1)
-- Found Dtc: /opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.1/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/dtc (found suitable version "1.6.0", minimum required is "1.4.6")
-- Found BOARD.dts: /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/boards/nordic/nrf52833dk/nrf52833dk_nrf52833.dts
-- Found devicetree overlay: /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/boards/nrf52833dk_nrf52833.overlay -- Generated zephyr.dts: /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr/zephyr.dts
-- Generated devicetree_generated.h: /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr/include/generated/zephyr/devicetree_generated.h
-- Including generated dts.cmake file: /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr/dts.cmake
warning: Experimental symbol BT_DF is enabled.
warning: Experimental symbol BT_LL_SW_SPLIT is enabled.
Parsing /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/Kconfig
Loaded configuration '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/boards/nordic/nrf52833dk/nrf52833dk_nrf52833_defconfig'
Merged configuration '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/prj.conf'
Merged configuration '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/boards/nrf52833dk_nrf52833.conf'
Merged configuration '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr/.config.sysbuild'
Configuration saved to '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr/.config'
Kconfig header saved to '/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr/include/generated/zephyr/autoconf.h'
-- Found GnuLd: /opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.1/arm-zephyr-eabi/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/ld.bfd (found version "2.38")
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 12.2.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 12.2.0
-- The ASM compiler identification is GNU
-- Found assembler: /opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.1/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/arm-zephyr-eabi-gcc
-- Setting build type to 'MinSizeRel' as none was specified.
-- Using ccache: /usr/bin/ccache
-- Configuring done (3.9s)
-- Generating done (0.1s)
-- Build files have been written to: /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx
-- Configuring done (5.8s)
-- Generating done (0.0s)
-- Build files have been written to: /home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build
-- west build: building application
[5/10] Performing build step for 'direction_finding_connectionless_rx'
[1/201] Preparing syscall dependency handling
[5/201] Generating include/generated/zephyr/version.h
-- Zephyr version: 3.7.99 (/home/john/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr), build: v3.7.99-ncs2
[196/201] Linking C executable zephyr/zephyr_pre0.elf
FAILED: zephyr/zephyr_pre0.elf zephyr/zephyr_pre0.map /home/sarmanowa/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr/zephyr_pre0.map
: && ccache /opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.1/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/arm-zephyr-eabi-gcc -Os -DNDEBUG -gdwarf-4 -gdwarf-4 zephyr/CMakeFiles/zephyr_pre0.dir/misc/empty_file.c.obj -o zephyr/zephyr_pre0.elf zephyr/CMakeFiles/offsets.dir/./arch/arm/core/offsets/offsets.c.obj -T zephyr/linker_zephyr_pre0.cmd -Wl,-Map=/home/sarmanowa/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr/zephyr_pre0.map -Wl,--whole-archive app/libapp.a zephyr/libzephyr.a zephyr/arch/common/libarch__common.a zephyr/arch/arch/arm/core/libarch__arm__core.a zephyr/arch/arch/arm/core/cortex_m/libarch__arm__core__cortex_m.a zephyr/arch/arch/arm/core/mpu/libarch__arm__core__mpu.a zephyr/lib/libc/picolibc/liblib__libc__picolibc.a zephyr/lib/libc/common/liblib__libc__common.a zephyr/lib/net_buf/liblib__net_buf.a zephyr/soc/soc/nrf52833/libsoc__nordic.a zephyr/subsys/random/libsubsys__random.a zephyr/subsys/bluetooth/common/libsubsys__bluetooth__common.a zephyr/subsys/bluetooth/host/libsubsys__bluetooth__host.a zephyr/subsys/bluetooth/controller/libsubsys__bluetooth__controller.a zephyr/subsys/bluetooth/controller/ll_sw/nordic/libsubsys__bluetooth__controller__ll_sw__nordic.a zephyr/drivers/clock_control/libdrivers__clock_control.a zephyr/drivers/console/libdrivers__console.a zephyr/drivers/entropy/libdrivers__entropy.a zephyr/drivers/gpio/libdrivers__gpio.a zephyr/drivers/pinctrl/libdrivers__pinctrl.a zephyr/drivers/serial/libdrivers__serial.a zephyr/drivers/timer/libdrivers__timer.a modules/hal_nordic/nrfx/libmodules__hal_nordic__nrfx.a modules/segger/libmodules__segger.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive zephyr/kernel/libkernel.a -L/home/sarmanowa/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr zephyr/arch/common/libisr_tables.a -mcpu=cortex-m4 -mthumb -mabi=aapcs -mfp16-format=ieee -mtp=soft -fuse-ld=bfd -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--build-id=none -Wl,--sort-common=descending -Wl,--sort-section=alignment -Wl,-u,_OffsetAbsSyms -Wl,-u,_ConfigAbsSyms -nostdlib -static -Wl,-X -Wl,-N -Wl,--orphan-handling=warn -Wl,-no-pie -specs=picolibc.specs -DPICOLIBC_LONG_LONG_PRINTF_SCANF -L"/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.1/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-zephyr-eabi/12.2.0/thumb/v7e-m/nofp" -lc -lgcc && cd /home/sarmanowa/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/zephyr && /usr/bin/cmake -E true
/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.1/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-zephyr-eabi/12.2.0/../../../../arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/ld.bfd: zephyr/subsys/bluetooth/host/libsubsys__bluetooth__host.a(hci_core.c.obj):(.data.bt_dev+0xe4): undefined reference to `__device_dts_ord_121'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
FAILED: _sysbuild/sysbuild/images/direction_finding_connectionless_rx-prefix/src/direction_finding_connectionless_rx-stamp/direction_finding_connectionless_rx-build /home/sarmanowa/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/_sysbuild/sysbuild/images/direction_finding_connectionless_rx-prefix/src/direction_finding_connectionless_rx-stamp/direction_finding_connectionless_rx-build
cd /home/sarmanowa/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build/direction_finding_connectionless_rx && /usr/bin/cmake --build .
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
FATAL ERROR: command exited with status 1: /usr/bin/cmake --build /home/sarmanowa/ncs/v2.9.0/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/direction_finding_connectionless_rx/build
I have top view knowledge of the dts, but that undefined reference errors on them are quite cryptic for me. How can I debug this?
