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

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:

> 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?
>

First of all, if you want to do that, you should be adding m4-native and
quilt-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED, not m4 and quilt, unless your build
machine somehow has cross-compiled stuff already ;)
-- 
Christopher Larson
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