[yocto] How to enable php5 (php_5.5.24.bb) support for postgresql

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 21 May 2015 23:21:53 yocto yocto wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> 
> I am working with the intel Edison. Therefore I am using the
> meta-openembedded “daisy” branch (have a look here:
> https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/branches/stale). Using
> another branch causes bitbake errors. Beside this, “daisy” is recommended
> for the intel Edison within the official intel documents.
> 
> 
> Nevertheless I added apache2_2.4.9.bb and postgresql_9.2.4.bb to my custom
> image. However, php5 support is missing. Therefore I downloaded the php
> recipe from the current master branch and put it in my custom layer:
> 
> 
> https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/b070899000162e7f4baf7
> 5e2427216b39c641a12/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/
> 
> 
> <https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/b070899000162e7f4baf
> 75e2427216b39c641a12/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/>
> 
> Furthermore I created “php_5.5.24.bbappend” with the following content in
> the same folder:
> 
> 
> PACKAGECONFIG_append += "apache2"
> 
> PACKAGECONFIG_append += "pgsql"
> 
> 
> bitbake php results in the following errors:
> 
> 
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'uw-imap' […] but php/php_5.5.24.bb DEPENDS on or
> otherwise requires it)
> 
> ERROR: Required build target 'php' has no buildable providers.
> 
> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['php', 'uw-imap']
> 
> 
> So I removed the config “PACKAGECONFIG[imap]” from php_5.5.24.bb.  Result:
> 
> 
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'postgresql-native' […] but /php/php_5.5.24.bb
> DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it). Close matches:
> 
>   postgresql
> 
>   strace-native
> 
>   popt-native
> 
> ERROR: Required build target 'php' has no buildable providers.
> 
> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['php', 'php-native',
> 'postgresql-native']
> 
> 
> Google does not show much for postgresql-native related to yocto. "bitbake
> postgresql" is running fine... If I remove BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" from
> the recipe I get the following result:
> 
> 
> ERROR: This autoconf log indicates errors, it looked at host include and/or
> library paths while determining system capabilities.
> 
> Rerun configure task after fixing this. The path was
> "php/5.5.24-r0/php-5.5.24'
> 
> ERROR: Function failed: do_qa_configure
> 
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> "php/5.5.24-r0/temp/log.do_configure.22410
> 
> ERROR: Task 5 (php/php_5.5.24.bb, do_configure) failed with exit code '1'
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I appreciate any advice on how to set up php5 for postgresql.

Change your PACKAGECONFIG_append lines in your bbappend to use 
PACKAGECONFIG_append_class-native instead and you should be able to progress. 
Also, you very likely shouldn't be removing the BBCLASSEXTEND.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre