[yocto] Packages util-linux and gettext both showing undefined reference

[Tom Zanussi]

On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 19:19 +0000, Summers, John S wrote:
> Hi Darren,
> 
> Maybe I should elaborate a bit on what I am trying to do.  Basically,
> I am trying to develop an embedded EFI-bootable image using the
> poky-tiny distro.
> 
> I would like to be able to automate the image generation process, so
> I've been using the "wic" tool to generate the image.  Wic has been
> working great (at least it works fine with manual parameters, the -e
> argument results in a failure as described at
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6704&list_id=cookie), but it appears that the initramfs image is not being generated properly, resulting in a kernel Panic when I load the image via UEFI.
> 

Hi,

I haven't generated a poky-tiny image with wic before, but those
undefined error messages do seem vaguely familiar to me, and I seem to
remember working around them but I can't remember the details.

Can you send me the the relevant info to try a build myself, and also
the wic command you're using (and the one that fails)?

Thanks,

Tom

> I saw that poky-tiny by default uses the following image types:
> IMAGE_FSTYPES = "ext2 cpio.gz"
> 
> This is in my foo-layer/conf/distro/foo-layer.conf file.  There's also
> a note there saying that "We don't build live as that pulls in a lot
> of dependencies for live image and the installer, like udev, grub,
> etc.  These pull in gettext, which fails to build with wide character
> support."
> 
> Does this mean that wic is not supported with poky-tiny?  If it is
> supported, are there any additional requirements for building
> initramfs images into wic generated images?
> 
> Also, I don't see core-image-minimal-initramfs added in poky-tiny as a
> PNBLACKLIST image.  Do you know of any additional configuration I need
> to get this image to build properly (either directly with bitbake or
> embedded into my recipe)?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Stuart
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burton, Ross [mailto:ross.burton at intel.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 10:28 AM
> To: Summers, John S
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org; Darren Hart
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Packages util-linux and gettext both showing undefined reference
> 
> On 22 September 2014 18:05, Summers, John S <john.s.summers at intel.com> wrote:
> > DISTRO            = "poky-tiny"
> 
> I expect this is what's causing the problem.  poky-tiny is very cut-down.  CC'ing Darren for a more informed comment.
> 
> Ross