[yocto] best cfg for building all of yocto?

[Scott Garman]

On 07/21/2011 10:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Scott Garman wrote:
>
>> On 07/21/2011 09:32 AM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Scott Garman<scott.a.garman at intel.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> bitbake world should build all of the available packages that aren't
>>>> explicitly excluded due to machine incompatibilities. It doesn't generate
>>>> a
>>>> final image though, just all of the output packages.
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to remove a specific package from being built
>>> with running bitbake world? There are unmet dependencies:
>>>
>>> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
>>> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'libmad'
>>> ERROR: Required build target 'libomxil' has no buildable providers.
>>> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['libomxil', 'libmad']
>>
>> This happens because conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc excludes some
>> recipes which are known to use commercial licenses:
>>
>> COMMERCIAL_LICENSE ?= "lame gst-fluendo-mp3 libmad mpeg2dec ffmpeg qmmp"
>>
>> If you'd like to build these recipes, set COMMERCIAL_LICENSE = "" in your
>> local.conf.
>
>    related to richard's earlier post about how to exclude packages,
> shouldn't the initial settings be consistent, then?  either a default
> yocto setup should include commercial licenses, or exclude them (and
> their packages) entirely.  it seems that running a simple "bitbake
> world" shouldn't just fail.

I agree with Robert. I have filed bug #1262 to track this issue.

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center