[bitbake-devel] [yocto] No Package Provides /bin/awk

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 04:08:48PM -0600, Wayne Li wrote:
> Dear Yocto Developers,
> 
> I'm trying to to build a Yocto kernel for a T4240 RDB.  When I run "bitbake
> fsl-image-full" to build the entire linux image, I get an error that says
> "Can't install kernel-devsrc-1.0-r0 at t4240rdb_64b: no package provides
> /bin/awk".  Here's the entire error print that I see:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/WayneZhenLi/e35f65081092cf1f24df29ec369c701c
> 
> Anyway I'm confused about this error because /bin/awk does exist.  Like if
> I run "/bin/awk" in the console I see help info come up describing how to
> use a program called "gawk".  Why can't bitbake find /bin/awk then?  Or am
> I misunderstanding what this error is trying to say?  I mean I'm assuming
> it's just not able to find /bin/awk but maybe the error means something
> else?  Or maybe /bin/awk is actually relative to some path?  Let me know
> your thoughts.

/bin/awk is missing on your target image that will run on the T4240 RDB.

The smallest implementation is to enable CONFIG_AWK in your busybox config.

> -Thanks!, Wayne Li

cu
Adrian

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