[yocto] Question: xxxx listed in PACKAGES multiple times, this leads to packaging errors

Dinh Nguyen (dinhn) dinhn at cisco.com
Wed Oct 5 11:43:18 PDT 2016 


>> then it is just going to reuse the build artifacts from last builds and not checkout the sources etc.
>> all those tasks will be skipped.

>> why are looking for sources in a build tree ?


Not only source under 
.. yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/git 

But other data such as such as the yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/image/* was also gone. The following image that I have it in the first place.



dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/image/usr/bin$ ls -ltr
total 1424
-rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 171701 Oct  5 01:17 datamodel_cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 187434 Oct  5 01:17 invoke
-rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 184961 Oct  5 01:17 invoke_b
-rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 171701 Oct  5 01:17 protocol_infra
-rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 191362 Oct  5 01:17 publisher
-rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 187084 Oct  5 01:17 rpc-register
-rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 179648 Oct  5 01:17 service
-rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 174518 Oct  5 01:17 subscriber
dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/image/usr/bin$ cd ../lib
dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/image/usr/lib$ ls -ltr
total 856
-rw-r--r-- 3 dinhn dinhn 872657 Oct  5 01:17 libmlib.so


Thanks,
  —Dinh 

On 10/5/16, 11:26 AM, "Khem Raj" <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> On Oct 5, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Dinh Nguyen (dinhn) <dinhn at cisco.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Are the files present in the image/packages?  Maybe it is just the
>>>> bitbake cache skipping doing work it already did last time.
>> 
>> If I don’t do the bitbake clean, and just do bitbake again, then yes.
>> 
>> 
>> But if I do “bitbake -c clean c-mlib” and bitbake again, the is where the problem.
>
>
>well its using sstate cache here so when you do clean and rebuild and it notices no changes from previous builds
>then it is just going to reuse the build artifacts from last builds and not checkout the sources etc.
>all those tasks will be skipped.
>
>why are looking for sources in a build tree ?
>I ask because if you want to hack on it then I would recommend following devtool workflow.
>see
>http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#using-devtool-in-your-workflow
>
>
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>  —Dinh
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/5/16, 9:30 AM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 04:06:25PM +0000, Dinh Nguyen (dinhn) wrote:
>>>> Many thanks Paul. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. >>> Like the other responder I would suggest you not set PACKAGES
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, I did not set the PACKAGES, so -dev, -dbg and main packages were built as shown below:
>>>> 
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp$ find tmp/deploy | grep c-mlibtmp/deploy/ipk/core2-64/c-mlib-dbg_1.1-r0_core2-64.ipk
>>>> tmp/deploy/ipk/core2-64/c-mlib-dev_1.1-r0_core2-64.ipk
>>>> tmp/deploy/ipk/core2-64/c-mlib_1.1-r0_core2-64.ipk
>>>> tmp/deploy/licenses/c-mlib
>>>> 
>>>> 2. >>> FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir}”
>>>> 
>>>> I added that to .bb as you suggested so .so file doesn't end up in the ${PN}-dev
>>>> Package — No longer see the error mentioned in previous mail. Thx
>>>> 
>>>> 3. >>> This is what I suspected would happen - these files would normally be part of
>>>> the ${PN}-dbg package, but since you've removed that from PACKAGES, they are
>>>> ending up unpackaged and that is not allowed.
>>>> 
>>>> Did you mean the "install -m 0644 xxx yyy” to remove those files from the PACKAGES? How do I copy .so and binaries from my target to the libdir or bindir?
>>>> 
>>>> After changing the .bb to remove the PACKAGES setting and FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir}”
>>>> For the very first time, packages were built find, image were created under image directory and c-mlib source is still in the yp workspace as shown below:
>>>> 
>>>> A.Packages were built
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp$ find tmp/deploy | grep c-mlib
>>>> tmp/deploy/ipk/core2-64/c-mlib-dbg_1.1-r0_core2-64.ipk
>>>> tmp/deploy/ipk/core2-64/c-mlib-dev_1.1-r0_core2-64.ipk
>>>> tmp/deploy/ipk/core2-64/c-mlib_1.1-r0_core2-64.ipk
>>>> tmp/deploy/licenses/c-mlib
>>>> 
>>>> B. Source files and the c-mlib git directory still have all the sources (e.g just grep the mlib_api.c)
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp$ find . -name "mlib_api.c"
>>>> ./tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/git/src/mlib_api.c
>>>> ./tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/packages-split/c-mlib-dbg/usr/src/debug/c-mlib/1.1-r0/git/src/mlib_api.c
>>>> ./tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/package/usr/src/debug/c-mlib/1.1-r0/git/src/mlib_api.c
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp$
>>>> 
>>>> C. Image was built as well including binaries and libmlib.so
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/image/usr/bin$ ls -ltr
>>>> total 1424
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 171701 Oct  5 01:17 datamodel_cache
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 187434 Oct  5 01:17 invoke
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 184961 Oct  5 01:17 invoke_b
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 171701 Oct  5 01:17 protocol_infra
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 191362 Oct  5 01:17 publisher
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 187084 Oct  5 01:17 rpc-register
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 179648 Oct  5 01:17 service
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 dinhn dinhn 174518 Oct  5 01:17 subscriber
>>>> 
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/image/usr/bin$ cd ../lib
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/image/usr/lib$ ls -ltr
>>>> total 856
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 3 dinhn dinhn 872657 Oct  5 01:17 libmlib.so
>>>> 
>>>> So it is all good for the first time, but thereafter that, if I do clean “bitbake -c clean c-mlib” and “bitbake c-mlib” again.
>>>> All packages were build successful, but all data under c-mlib got was gone. Nothing there including .c/h files, image directory etc...
>>>> 
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/git$ ls -ltr
>>>> total 0
>>>> dinhn at rs-bldsrv:/media/raghuram/data/dinhn/ioxDevLatest/ioxsdk/yp/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/c-mlib/1.1-r0/git$
>>>> 
>>>> Please give me an idea why how to solve this? Sorry for a long email ;-))
>>> 
>>> Are the files present in the image/packages?  Maybe it is just the
>>> bitbake cache skipping doing work it already did last time.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Len Sorensen
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