[meta-freescale] Problem building chromium for framebuffer

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster at mail.bg> wrote:
> On 05/09/2015 05:22 PM, Peter Bergin wrote:
>> I am trying to build chromium with framebuffer as backend but having
>> trouble. I am using fido branch of the FSL community bsp. When chromium is
>> doing the configure step it is halted with a message that the package
>> gdk-2.0 is missing. Can someone give a hint about whats wrong in my
>> configuration and how to proceed?
>>
>> In my local.conf I have added:
>>
>> DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = " x11 wayland"
>> PACKAGECONFIG_remove = " x11 wayland"
>>
>> This is the output from 'bitbake chromium':
>>
>> Loading cache: 100%
>> |##################################################################################|
>> ETA:  00:00:00
>> Loaded 2202 entries from dependency cache.
>> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
>> NOTE: multiple providers are available for jpeg (jpeg, libjpeg-turbo)
>> NOTE: consider defining a PREFERRED_PROVIDER entry to match jpeg
>>
>> Build Configuration:
>> BB_VERSION        = "1.26.0"
>> BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
>> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-14.04"
>> TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
>> MACHINE           = "cubox-i"
>> DISTRO            = "poky"
>> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.8"
>> TUNE_FEATURES     = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa9"
>> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
>> meta
>> meta-yocto        = "fido:e2e522a6ede3165f63ad81c72f8ac6d3903f8296"
>> meta-oe
>> meta-gnome        = "fido:5b0305d9efa4b5692cd942586fb7aa92dba42d59"
>> meta-fsl-arm      = "fido:0cfe91f3291d5c333f7fe657df397ddb520b6d31"
>> meta-fsl-arm-extra = "fido:bc1269b1be74f319f492090ffd3d836e25d8a559"
>> meta-browser      = "master:713b7f4dd6292461180be17882bf468e92ac43d2"
>>
>> NOTE: Preparing RunQueue
>> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
>> NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
>> ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (log file is located at
>> /work/yocto/fido/cubox-i/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-mx6qdl-poky-linux-gnueabi/chromium/40.0.2214.91-r0/temp/log.do_configure.14136)
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>> /work/yocto/fido/cubox-i/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-mx6qdl-poky-linux-gnueabi/chromium/40.0.2214.91-r0/temp/log.do_configure.14136
>> Log data follows:
>> | DEBUG: Executing python function sysroot_cleansstate
>> | DEBUG: Python function sysroot_cleansstate finished
>> | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
>> | Updating projects from gyp files...
>> | Package gdk-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>> | Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdk-2.0.pc'
>> | to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> | No package 'gdk-2.0' found
>> | gyp: Call to 'pkg-config --cflags gdk-2.0' returned exit status 1.
>> | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
>> | ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (log file is located at
>> /work/yocto/fido/cubox-i/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-mx6qdl-poky-linux-gnueabi/chromium/40.0.2214.91-r0/temp/log.do_configure.14136)
>> ERROR: Task 5
>> (/work/yocto/fido/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium_40.0.2214.91.bb,
>> do_configure) failed with exit code '1'
>> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 1670 tasks of which 567 didn't need to be
>> rerun and 1 failed.
>> Waiting for 0 running tasks to finish:
>>
>> Summary: 1 task failed:
>>
>> /work/yocto/fido/sources/meta-browser/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium_40.0.2214.91.bb,
>> do_configure
>> NOTE: Writing buildhistory
>
>
> gtk+ dependency (which contains gdk) is missing from the chromium
> recipe when building without x11 or wayland.
>
> Unfortunately gtk+ itself can't be compiled if "directfb"
> DISTRO_FEATURE is enabled:
>
>
> $ bitbake gtk+
> Loading cache: 100%
> |#################################################################################################################################|
> ETA:  00:00:00
> Loaded 2260 entries from dependency cache.
> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
> NOTE: multiple providers are available for jpeg (jpeg, libjpeg-turbo)
> NOTE: consider defining a PREFERRED_PROVIDER entry to match jpeg
> NOTE: multiple providers are available for jpeg-native (jpeg-native,
> libjpeg-turbo-native)
> NOTE: consider defining a PREFERRED_PROVIDER entry to match jpeg-native
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'directfb-native' (but
> virtual:native:/home/picmaster/work/yocto-fido-test/sources/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairo_1.12.18.bb
> DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it). Close matches:
>   re2c-native
>   db-native
>   orc-native
> ERROR: Required build target 'gtk+' has no buildable providers.
> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['gtk+', 'gdk-pixbuf-native',
> 'harfbuzz-native', 'cairo-native', 'directfb-native']
>
>
> It seems that for some reason gtk+ triggers a chain of native
> dependencies which reaches directfb. I'm adding Martin and Otavio into
> the loop.

X11 or Wayland are still required for Chromium.

I know there is a undergoing work to allow it to work with Framebuffer
but not sure how far is it from completion.

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