[meta-freescale] Problem building fsl-image-gui

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Trevor Woerner
<trevor.woerner at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 1 July 2013 10:40, John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I didn't get that error, but I do think that it probably has something to do
>> with empty directories being installed.
>>
>> Paul Eggleton responded that the right way to handle these, with regards to
>> my bug reported on lmbench.
>>
>> "What the error is telling you is that these directories will not actually
>> appear in the rootfs because nothing is packaging them. If these directories
>> should be created in the rootfs then they need to be added to FILES_${PN}
>> within the recipe."
>>
>> So, it seems that many recipes need to be cleaned up so that they
>> deliberately indicate that empty files/directories should be included in the
>> package.
>
>
> But what if you didn't care about these non-packaged
> files/directories? Is there a way to say "thanks for the report, but
> let's ignore them?"

In this case you should remove them from install dirs. This is indeed
something which shouldn't happen and needs to be fixed in the package
(adding the files in the package or removing them).

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