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

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, 2019-11-13 at 10:33 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.
> 

import something like below patch into your kernel will help too

https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/linux-yocto/commit/?id=8af11c1cdd8fa08217e702b57cf96e9030db52b2

> > -Thanks!, Wayne Li
> 
> cu
> Adrian
> 
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