[yocto] strange bitbake error

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 08:29 -0800, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 19:15 -0800, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> > >   I am getting following bitbake error. I also tried passing –D
> > option
> > > to bitbake, but I did not find anything useful. Also bellow is the
> > > change which is causing this error.
> > >
> > > I don’t see anything oblivious here. As I understand just changing
> > the
> > > recipe from cvs to git src_uri has caused this issue.
> > 
> > Its probably exactly this change the breaks things. git SRC_URIs have a
> > dependency on git-native. git-native probably depends on
> > gnu-config-native indirectly. The end result is a circular dependency.
> > Bitbake tried to work this out but obviously got lost in the circular
> > logic.
> > 
> Thanks Richard for the clarification. So what would be possible
> solution for this circular dependency issue? I can check if we can get
> the latest gnu-config via cvs. Any other or better solution?

Is there a release tarball we can use? If not, we might end up hosting a
release tarball for it somewhere given this piece of software's position
in the build process.

I'd like to axe our cvs dependency for sure.

Cheers,

Richard