[yocto] how to download a recipe

[Burton, Ross]

grpc has build dependencies that are also in meta-oe, add the layer to
conf/bblayers.conf instead of just copying it piece by piece.

Ross

On 23 July 2018 at 21:45, Simon Chamlian <simon.chamlian at mpbc.ca> wrote:
> So I cloned the git meta-networking.
>
> Copied the whole
> meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/grpc
>
> into my layer.  Ran bitbake and I get the following errors:
>
>
> $ bitbake grpc
> Loading cache: 100%
> |#################################################################################|
> Time: 0:00:01
> Loaded 3076 entries from dependency cache.
> Parsing recipes: 100%
> |###############################################################################|
> Time: 0:00:01
> Parsing of 2334 .bb files complete (2333 cached, 1 parsed). 3064 targets,
> 288 skipped, 2 masked, 0 errors.
> WARNING: No bb files matched BBFILE_PATTERN_phytec
> '^/opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_imx7/sources/meta-phytec/common/'
> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'gflags-native' (but
> virtual:native:/opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_imx7/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-devtools/grpc/grpc_1.8.5.bb
> DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it). Close matches:
>   glslang-native
>   slang-native
>   lua-native
> ERROR: Required build target 'grpc' has no buildable providers.
> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['grpc', 'grpc-native',
> 'gflags-native']
>
> Summary: There was 1 WARNING message shown.
> Summary: There were 2 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
> $
>
>
> There is no instructions on how we can compile this grpc into image?
>
> Thanks,
> S
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, 12 July 2018 7:51:35 PM CEST Burton, Ross wrote:
>> > On 12 July 2018 at 18:49, Simon Chamlian <simon.chamlian at mpbc.ca> wrote:
>> > > for grpc, there are 2 of them:
>> > >
>> > > http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/72419/
>> > > Layer meta-oe
>> > >
>> > > <http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layer/meta-oe/>
>> > > (master branch)
>> >
>> > That's a bug in the tool, as meta-networking is a sublayer of meta-oe.
>> > If
>> > you look at the paths, they're the same file.
>>
>> That is indeed a bug in the layer index update script - at some point in
>> the
>> past the recipe was moved and the move wasn't handled properly. I have a
>> fix
>> and will be sending it shortly.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>> --
>>
>> Paul Eggleton
>> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>>
>>
>