[yocto] Trying to bitbake core-image-minimal on Archlinux

[Satya Swaroop Damarla]

hey Biao,

The sanity information is provided in the directory meta-yocto/conf/distro/
... Here there are several distributions and in their conf file you have
the sanity tested ditro .. :)

Greets,
Satya


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Biao <huanmateme at 163.com> wrote:

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> 在 2013-03-04 06:16:55，"Jack Mitchell" <ml at communistcode.co.uk> 写道：
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>  On 03/03/13 18:02, Ismael Barros² wrote:
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> Hi there,
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>  I'm new to Yocto, and I keep finding errors that prevent me from
> building a minimal image.
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>  I've just installed poky-danny-8.0, sourced oe-init-build-env, and
> bitbaked core-image-minimal. The first error is that bitbake sanity checks
> fail to detect the network access, while my network connectivity is
> perfect, and downloading packages seem to work if I disable this checks.
> Full log: http://pastebin.com/6jJCC1qp. I couldn't find any log that told
> me which piece of code was failing, so I jut disabled this check
> on ../meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
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>  Upon trying again, building started fine, but it started failing to
> build the documentation for some packages, i.e. binutils-cross. First off,
> I want to build a single mission appliance, I don't really want to build
> any documentation, is there any way I can disable it? Anyway, this is the
> build log: http://pastebin.com/n9U4GfjG. Looks like there are some
> texinfo commands my machine (texinfo 5.0) doesn't recognice. According to
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15183, it's a known bug
> on binuilts-2.22 and it's fixed on binuilts-2.23.
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>  Poking around, looks like "updating" to binutils-2.23 got it kind of
> working:
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>  mv ./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.22.inc
> ./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1.inc
> mv ./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian_2.22.bb./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/
> binutils-cross-canadian_2.23.1.bb
> mv ./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils_2.22.bb./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/
> binutils_2.23.1.bb
> mv ./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-crosssdk_2.22.bb./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/
> binutils-crosssdk_2.23.1.bb
> mv ./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross_2.22.bb./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/
> binutils-cross_2.23.1.bb
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>  I also had to update the md5 and sha1
> on ./meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.23.1.inc. After that, some
> patches failed to apply:
> libtool-2.4-update.patch, binutils-2.19.1-ld-sysroot.patch, binutils-poison.patch,
> libtool-rpath-fix.patch, clone-shadow.patch... so gave up
> What would be the appropiate way to workaround this issue, besides not
> using Archlinux?
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>  Btw, if the bitbake core-image-minimal fails because there's not enough
> disk space, and the free disk in the partition is left to 0, after that
> even the bitbake clean command fails :\
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>  Anyway, thank you guys for what seems to be an excellent BSP factory,
> I'm really looking forward to start using it at our company :)
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>  Kind regards,
> Ismael
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> Hi Ismael,
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> Archlinux currently has texinfo5 in it's core repo which breaks a
> significant amount of packages. I would suggest downgrading to textinfo4.x
> (can't remember the exact version) and then things should at least start to
> get going again. I'm afraid however if you insist on using a rolling
> release distro you are going to hit these problems more often than most, if
> you want a stable build environment then I would suggest using a sanity
> tested distro. If you do with to persist with Archlinux I suggest you
> follow oe-core/yocto master and update regulary.
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> One dummy question, how to find out the list of all "sanity tested
> distro", i just saw a long list from the output of "git tag".
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> Thanks,
> Biao
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> Cheers,
> Jack.
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