[yocto] Help with configuring Yocto with an external toolchain

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Sree <sreekanth.nandakumar at csr.com> wrote:
> Chris Larson <clarson at ...> writes:
>
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Radha Krishna Srimanthula
>> <srimanthula.radhakrishna at ...> wrote:
>> > I have an armv5tej platform for which I need put in place, a toolchain and
> a
>> > build system. It is in this regard that I need some help:
>> >
>> > Can Yocto use an external toolchain (we use CodeSourcery)? If so, how do I
>> > configure Yocto to use the external toolchain? I went through the
> developers
>> > and user manuals of Yocto - am not too sure how to go about doing this. Can
>> > you please help me with this?
>>
>> TCMODE = "external-csl"
>> EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN = "/path/to/sourcery/toolchain"
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have added TCMODE?= "external-csl" in local.conf &  EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN
> = "/path/to/sourcery/toolchain"(pre-built tool chain) in tcmode-external-
> csl.inc i get an error when i try to build.
>
> ERROR: Execution of event handler 'csl_version_handler' failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "csl_version_handler(e)", line 12, in csl_version_handler
> (e=<bb.event.ConfigParsed object at 0x87807cc>)
>   File "csl-versions.inc", line 4, in csl_get_gdb_version
> (d=<bb.data_smart.DataSmart object at 0x8af1e2c>)
> NameError: global name 'CmdError' is not defined

You're using old metadata which had a bug. Go to line 4 of
csl-versions.inc and change CmdError to bb.process.CmdError. I assume
this is a release branch?
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Christopher Larson