[yocto] Failing to compile Yocto (acl package)

[Gary Thomas]

On 12/27/2010 03:21 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to compile Yocto from sources as described in the quick start documentation but the build fails as follows:
>
> $ wget http://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/poky/poky-laverne-4.0.tar.bz2
> $ tar xjf poky-laverne-4.0.tar.bz2
> $ (edited conf/local.conf to select qemuarm)
> $ source poky-laverne-4.0/poky-init-build-env poky-4.0-build
> $ bitbake poky-image-minimal
>
>
> ... (30 minutes of work)
>
> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_fetch: Succeeded
> NOTE: Running task 582 of 1621 (ID: 1261, /home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb, do_unpack)
> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_unpack: Started
> NOTE: Unpacking /home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/downloads/acl-2.2.49.src.tar.gz to /home/psanchez/Oven/poky-4.0-build/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/acl-2.2.49-r0/
> ERROR: Task failed:
> NOTE: package acl-2.2.49-r0: task do_unpack: Failed
> ERROR: Task 1261 (/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb, do_unpack) failed with 1
> ERROR: '/home/psanchez/Oven/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.49.bb' failed
>
>
> I tried compiling the Laverne branch on a cloned Poky git repo. It also fails when processing the acl package. Any workarounds? Is there any log file I can look at for more details?

You can find log files in the build directory with a relative
path like .../tmp/work/*/acl*/temp

In particular, look at the log.do_unpack file for clues

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