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

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 05:19 -0500, Robert P. J. Day 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?

You are misunderstanding the syntax. Were you not meaning m4-native and
quilt-native?

Cheers,

Richard