[yocto] Removing syslogd form busybox

[Andre McCurdy]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Simon Chamlian <simon.chamlian at mpbc.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I removing syslogd from busybox, I can compile with no error
>
> $ bitbake -c compile busybox
> Loading cache: 100% |####################################| Time: 0:00:01
> Loaded 3082 entries from dependency cache.
> WARNING: No bb files matched BBFILE_PATTERN_phytec
> '^/opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_imx7/sources/meta-phytec/common/'
> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
>
> Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION        = "1.32.0"
> BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-16.04"
> TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE           = "imx7d-phyboard-zeta-001"
> DISTRO            = "fsl-imx-x11"
> DISTRO_VERSION    = "4.9.11-1.0.0"
> TUNE_FEATURES     = "arm armv7ve vfp  neon        callconvention-hard
> cortexa7"
> TARGET_FPU        = "hard"
> meta
> meta-poky         = "HEAD:78890ea22750804e3e9113e76f7ca3d7234c8342"
> meta-oe
> meta-multimedia
> meta-webserver    = "HEAD:fe5c83312de11e80b85680ef237f8acb04b4b26e"
> meta-freescale    = "HEAD:a398b50b7fc084a9e68cc3000c218d5028522a25"
> meta-freescale-3rdparty = "HEAD:68314612e236cab1da82d72a0da62635a3523f84"
> meta-freescale-distro = "HEAD:cd5c7a2539f40004f74126e9fdf08254fd9a6390"
> meta-bsp
> meta-sdk          = "HEAD:daba3340ecd8b358e0c6c415baeee0fcae95c525"
> meta-browser      = "HEAD:10f6e3778d823ee1be106c126216c6f941088fbf"
> meta-gnome
> meta-networking
> meta-python
> meta-filesystems  = "HEAD:fe5c83312de11e80b85680ef237f8acb04b4b26e"
> meta-qt5          = "HEAD:ff073f04109900fc07bf81e2f1df63c626caf342"
> meta-phytec
> meta-phytec-fsl   = "HEAD:f9897a4e06f43184a71d315cec4a412a28baa59b"
>
> WARNING:
> /opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_imx7/sources/poky/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.24.1.bb.do_compile
> is tainted from a forced run
> | ETA:  0:00:01
> Initialising tasks: 100%
> |###########################################################################################################################################################################|
> Time: 0:00:01
> NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
> NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 234 tasks of which 232 didn't need to be
> rerun and all succeeded.
>
> Summary: There were 2 WARNING messages shown.
>
>
> When I build my image for my machine, I am getting the following error:
>
>
> WARNING: busybox-1.24.1-r0 do_package: busybox: alternative target
> (/etc/syslog.conf or /etc/syslog.conf.busybox) does not exist, skipping...
> WARNING: busybox-1.24.1-r0 do_package: busybox: NOT adding alternative
> provide /etc/syslog.conf: /etc/syslog.conf.busybox does not exist
> ERROR: busybox-1.24.1-r0 do_package: SYSTEMD_SERVICE_busybox-syslog value
> busybox-syslog.service does not exist
> ERROR: busybox-1.24.1-r0 do_package: Function failed:
> systemd_populate_packages
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_imx7/build/tmp/work/cortexa7hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/busybox/1.24.1-r0/temp/log.do_package.30442
> ERROR: Task
> (/opt/PHYTEC_BSPs/yocto_imx7/sources/poky/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.24.1.bb:do_package)
> failed with exit code '1'
>
> Any hints?

It looks like you're using morty, which pre-dates busybox syslog
"officially" being made optional:

  http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=9732a2ba2edf2607e61ae4fe0d65a02b7918cfe7

If you can't update to a newer release you could try backporting the
above commit.