[yocto] busybox: adding task to run before do_configure

[Burton, Ross]

AFAIK, you don't need the deptasks as the before/after statements will
insert the task in the right place.

Ross

On 25 June 2018 at 18:59, Måns Zigher <mans.zigher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have created this simple class file
>
> python do_busybox_foo() {
>     bb.warn("BUSYBOX: foo task!")
> }
> addtask busybox_foo after do_configure before do_compile
> do_busybox_foo[deptask] += "do_configure"
>
> do_compile[deptask] += "do_busybox_foo"
>
> And created a busybox_%.bbappend inherit this class. When running this I am
> seeing the following error
>
> WARNING: busybox-1.24.1-r0 do_busybox_foo: BUSYBOX: foo task!
> ERROR: busybox-1.24.1-r0 do_install: Error executing a python function in
> exec_python_func() autogenerated:
>
> The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
> File: 'exec_python_func() autogenerated', lineno: 2, function: <module>
>      0001:
>  *** 0002:extend_recipe_sysroot(d)
>      0003:
> File: '/home/user/workdir/layers/poky/meta/classes/staging.bbclass', lineno:
> 565, function: extend_recipe_sysroot
>      0561:                    dest = newmanifest[l]
>      0562:                    if l.endswith("/"):
>      0563:                        staging_copydir(l, targetdir, dest,
> seendirs)
>      0564:                        continue
>  *** 0565:                    staging_copyfile(l, targetdir, dest,
> postinsts, seendirs)
>      0566:
>      0567:    bb.note("Installed into sysroot: %s" % str(msg_adding))
>      0568:    bb.note("Skipping as already exists in sysroot: %s" %
> str(msg_exists))
>      0569:
> File: '/home/user/workdir/layers/poky/meta/classes/staging.bbclass', lineno:
> 151, function: staging_copyfile
>      0147:        os.symlink(linkto, dest)
>      0148:        #bb.warn(c)
>      0149:    else:
>      0150:        try:
>  *** 0151:            os.link(c, dest)
>      0152:        except OSError as err:
>      0153:            if err.errno == errno.EXDEV:
>      0154:                bb.utils.copyfile(c, dest)
>      0155:            else:
> Exception: FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists:
> '/home/user/workdir/build/tmp/sysroots-components/cortexa7hf-neon/glibc-initial/usr/include/time.h'
> ->
> '/home/user/workdir/build/tmp/work/cortexa7hf-neon-target-linux-gnueabi/busybox/1.24.1-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/include/time.h'
>
> ERROR: busybox-1.24.1-r0 do_install: Function failed: extend_recipe_sysroot
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/user/workdir/build/tmp/work/cortexa7hf-neon-target-linux-gnueabi/busybox/1.24.1-r0/temp/log.do_install.30635
> ERROR: Task
> (/home/user/workdir/layers/poky/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.24.1.bb:do_install)
> failed with exit code '1'
>
> I have tried to debug this because I cannot understand why it affects the
> staging in the install task. By removing the do_busybox_foo[deptask] I
> prevent this error. Any advise would be appreciated.
>
> BR
> Måns Zigher
>
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