[bitbake-devel] bblayers.conf is required?

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> The config file conf/bblayers.conf seems to be required:
>  $ bitbake core-image-minimal
>  Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf
>  BitBake must be run from within your build directory: /home/local/p60_poky
>
> but the bitbake documentation says otherwise:
>                <para>BitBake will first search the current working directory
> for an optional "conf/bblayers.conf" configuration file. This file is
> expected to contain a BBLAYERS variable which is a space delimited list of
> 'layer' directories. For each directory in this list, a "conf/layer.conf"
> file will be searched for and parsed with the LAYERDIR variable being set to
> the directory where the layer was found. The idea is these files will setup
> BBPATH and other variables correctly for a given build directory
> automatically for the user.</para>
>
> Maybe the documentation should just read "required" instead of "optional"?

I think yes. Next action is a patch or bug report.