[OE-core] qemuarm: configure of bison fails, claims to need flex [SOLVED?]

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   trying to build absolutely stock qemuarm image with current oe-core,
> got:
>
> ERROR: Task 800
> (virtual:native:/home/rpjday/OE/dist/layers/oe-core/meta/recipes-devtools/bison/bison_2.5.1.bb,
> do_configure) failed with exit code '1'
>
> and the log file claimed that bison needed flex.  i'm doing it all
> over again from scratch just to make sure it wasn't something silly
> i did, i'll report back if i can reproduce it.

  ah, i see where i did something unapproved -- to test what i could
add to the ASSUME_PROVIDED list, i added this to my local.conf:

ASSUME_PROVIDED += "m4 quilt"

which caused the configure step for bison to fail, claiming that it
needed flex.  should i have expected that?  am i misunderstanding the
rationale for ASSUME_PROVIDED?

rday

p.s.  just restricted to ASSUME_PROVIDED to "m4", that appears to be
causing the problem.

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