[meta-freescale] menuconfig isn't working

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-01-17 10:41, Jess Sheneberger wrote:
> Thanks for the response, Gary.
>
> When I try:
>     bitbake virtual/kernel -c configure
>
> I get:
> ...
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'virtual-kernel'

Looks like this is a typo.  Be sure and use 'virtual/kernel' with a SLASH

> ...
>
> So when I try this:
>     bitbake linux-imx -c configure
> it completes without an error, but doesn't appear to show me the UI to configure the kernel.  The next step:
>     bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
> behaves the same as before; another window appears and disappears quickly.
>    bitbake linux-imx
> Is still running; I'm not sure what it's doing but it hasn't shown me any UI.
>
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> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Gary Thomas <samoht.yrag at gmail.com <mailto:samoht.yrag at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2013-01-17 10:05, Jess Sheneberger wrote:
>
>         Hi, I'm using instructions from here (http://www.jann.cc/2012/08/__08/building_freescale_s___community_yocto_bsp_for_the___olinuxino.html
>         <http://www.jann.cc/2012/08/08/building_freescale_s_community_yocto_bsp_for_the_olinuxino.html>) to build Freescale’s Community Yocto BSP for
>         the OLinuXino.  Everything seems to be working fine, except when I try to configure the kernel build using  "bitbake -c menuconfig linux-imx"--the menuconfig window appears and
>         disappears very quickly and the log looks like this:
>
>         NOTE: Running task 248 of 248 (ID: 4, /home/jess/fsl-community-bsp/__sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-__kernel/linux/linux-imx_2.6.35.__3.bb <http://linux-imx_2.6.35.3.bb>
>         <http://linux-imx_2.6.35.3.bb>__, do_menuconfig)
>
>         NOTE: package linux-imx-2.6.35.3-r42.15: task do_menuconfig: Started
>         NOTE: package linux-imx-2.6.35.3-r42.15: task do_menuconfig: Succeeded
>         NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 248 tasks of which 247 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded.
>
>         Any idea what's going on?  I've tried this from both Ubuntu 12.10 and (since I got a compatibility warning) 12.04, same problem.
>
>         Let me know if there is a better place to send my question.
>
>
>     Have you run through the configure step previously?
>
>     I'd try this sequence:
>        $ bitbake virtual/kernel -c configure
>        $ bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig
>        $ bitbake virtual/kernel
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