[yocto] 1.2_M2-Final build failures

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 12 March 2012 14:14:48 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <3971839.nMHIKpoOXs at helios> Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 February 2012 11:28:22 jfabernathy wrote:
> > > Using the tarballs for Poky and meta-intel for 1.2_M2-Final, I was
> > > getting a lot of build failures below is what worked and what didn't.
> > > Not sure if this is a bug or if I'm missing something. I extracted the
> > > meta-intel tarball for 1.2_M2-Final in the poky directory created by
> > > extracting the poky tarball for 1.2_M2.Final.
> > >
> > >...
> > >
> > >  3. building n450 core-image-minimal fails with error: ERROR: Unable to
> > >  
> > >     parse /home/jim/poky/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb:00:20
> > >     
> > >     Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >        File "/home/jim/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/ast.py", line 379, in
> > >     
> > >     multi_finalize(fn='/home/jim/poky/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.
> > >     bb
> > >     <http://task-base.bb>', d=<bb.data_smart.DataSmart object at
> 
> > >     0x4a801d0>):
> ...
> 
> > >  4. building cedartrail core-image-minimal fails with error: ERROR:
> > >     Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf: Could not include required file
> > >     conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc
> > 
> > I think I know what's going on here. In previous editions it was enough to
> > have just the meta-intel sub-layer in your bblayers.conf (e.g.
> > meta-crownbay) - now you also need to add meta-intel itself to get
> > certain common files. If you do this then your errors will go away.
> 
> Is it correct to assume that your note refers to the "4." problem
> above only?

I don't recall now but I assume I meant both at the time. FWIW it seems that 
for Jim's case both issues were solved by the suggested fix.

> I see the very same error as described as "3." above, but I don't use
> sub-layers.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Which entries for meta-intel do you have in 
your bblayers.conf?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre