[yocto] build tools problem

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-01-07 07:21, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm using the meta-toolchain on a old system to get up to date
> git+python.  Sadly, the python is incomplete, in particular
> the 'htmlntitydefs' is missing.  This leads to an error when
> trying to build the chromium browser:
>
> | gyp: Error importing pymod_do_mainmodule (grit_info): No module named htmlentitydefs while loading dependencies of
> /home/local/p8301_test/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-amltd-linux-gnueabi/chromium/29.0.1518.2-r0/chromium-29.0.1518.2/build/all.gyp while trying to load
> /home/local/p8301_test/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-amltd-linux-gnueabi/chromium/29.0.1518.2-r0/chromium-29.0.1518.2/build/all.gyp
>
> How can I update the meta-toolchain to fix this problem?  This is
> the version I'm using:
>    http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.5/toolchain/i686/

A related question is how can I force the chromium recipe to use the
python built/installed via python-native, since that version does have
all of the packages I need.  I tried just adding 'python-native' to the
chromium*.bb file, without any change.

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