[bitbake-devel] Minimal BitBake template

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 14:47 +0000, Andrew Stubbs wrote:
> On 14/01/13 14:23, Bill Traynor wrote:
> > This doesn't answer your problem directy, and you may have seen this
> > tutorial already, but in case not:
> >
> > http://hambedded.org/blog/2012/11/24/from-bitbake-hello-world-to-an-image/
> >
> > Note that I'm including a hello world example in the new BitBake User
> > Manual I'm working on.
> 
> Thanks!  That's a very useful resource. :)
> 
> It's surprisingly hard to find BitBake tutorials that do not assume that 
> one is trying to insert something into OE. I wish I'd found this sooner.
> 
> The other think I wish I'd found sooner, that you page references, are 
> the example conf and bbclass files inside the bitbake sources. I had 
> assumed they were some sort of internal detail, and not for the likes of me.
> 
> Apparently my base.bbclass and hello.bb files are absolutely fine, but 
> something, as yet unidentified, in the bitbake.conf from the sources has 
> fixed my problem.

At a guess, did you set the STAMP variable?

We could certainly make bitbake give less obtuse errors if some of the
key variables aren't set. Its not been a priority since people don't do
that very often though...

Cheers,

Richard