[OE-core] Broken gettext/gdbm

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 15:10 +0200, Matthieu CRAPET wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I updated my OE-core and bitbake today (2012.07.20). Build from scratch
> fails:
> 
> <code>
> NOTE: package gdbm-1.10-r3: task do_configure: Started
> ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (see
> /home/.../build/tmp-eglibc/work/armv5te-ing-linux-gnueabi/gdbm-1.10-r3/t
> emp/log.do_configure.31222 for further information)
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/.../build/tmp-eglibc/work/armv5te-ing-linux-gnueabi/gdbm-1.10-r3/t
> emp/log.do_configure.31222
> Log data follows:
> | DEBUG: Executing python function sysroot_cleansstate
> | DEBUG: Python function sysroot_cleansstate finished
> | DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'bit-32', 'arm-common',
> 'common-linux', 'common-glibc', 'arm-linux', 'arm-linux-gnueabi',
> 'common']
> | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
> | automake (GNU automake) 1.12.1
> | Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> | License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> | This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> | There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> |
> | Written by Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com>
> |        and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at gnu.org>.
> | AUTOV is 1.12
> | cp: cannot stat
> `/home/.../build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/rp02/usr/share/gettext/config.rpath
> ': No such file or directory
> | ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (see
> /home/.../build/tmp-eglibc/work/armv5te-ing-linux-gnueabi/gdbm-1.10-r3/t
> emp/log.do_configure.31222 for further information)
> NOTE: package gdbm-1.10-r3: task do_configure: Failed
> </code>
> 
> gdbm needs gettext to have config.rpath. But gettext is not built, but
> gettext-native & gettext-minimal-native are built.
> 
> Issue comes from  "meta/classes/autotools.bbclass":
> 
> <code>
>         else if grep "^[[:space:]]*AM_GNU_GETTEXT" $CONFIGURE_AC
> >/dev/null; then
>                             # We'd call gettextize here if it wasn't so
> broken...
>           cp ${STAGING_DATADIR}/gettext/config.rpath
> ${AUTOTOOLS_AUXDIR}/
> </code>
> 
> What would be the best workaround to take config.rpath from
> gettext-native?

This is odd since gdbm inherits gettext and therefore should have a
DEPENDS on virtual/gettext. gettext should therefore have been built.

Any idea why gettext wasn't built?

bitbake gdbm -e | grep ^DEPENDS

shows virtual/gettext here...

Cheers,

Richard