[OE-core] linux-yocto-custom. error in patch step

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Anders Darander <anders at chargestorm.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been playing around a little bit with linux-yocto-custom, however,
> i'm currently getting a build error (rather patch error)...
>
> Skipping my own layers and machines, I've reproduced the same issue by
> just taking oe-core (or poky), and editing
> meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux-yocto-custom.bb accoring to the
> partial patch below, and adding a defconfig in
> meta-skeletons/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom/defconfig:
>
> ---------------------
> @@ -47,18 +47,23 @@ require recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
>  # Override SRC_URI in a bbappend file to point at a different source
>  # tree if you do not want to build from Linus' tree.
>  SRC_URI =
> "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1"
> +SRC_URI += "file://defconfig"
>
> -LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.4"
> +LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.8"
>  LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-custom"
>
>  # Override SRCREV to point to a different commit in a bbappend file to
>  # build a different release of the Linux kernel.
>  # tag: v3.4 76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc
> -SRCREV="76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc"
> +SRCREV="19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200"
> +
> +
>
>  PR = "r1"
>  PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
>
>  # Override COMPATIBLE_MACHINE to include your machine in a bbappend
>  # file. Leaving it empty here ensures an early explicit build failure.
> -COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(^$)"
> +COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "qemuarm"
> ----------------------
>
> I'm using qemuarm as a playground (as I'm normally running a custom arm
> machine).
>
> This gives the following error:
> ERROR: Function failed: do_patch (see
> /home/anders/poky/build/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto-custom/3.8+gitAUTOINC+19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200-r1/temp/log.do_patch.8972
> for further information)
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/anders/poky/build/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto-custom/3.8+gitAUTOINC+19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200-r1/temp/log.do_patch.8972
> Log data follows:
> | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_patch
> | WARNING: no meta data branch found ...
> | Already on 'master'
> | Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 12742 commits, and can be
> fast-forwarded.
> | ERROR. input file "meta/cfg/scratch/obj/qemuarm-standard.scc" does not
> exist
> | ERROR. A meta series could not be created for
> meta/cfg/scratch/obj/qemuarm-standard.scc
> | ERROR. Could not locate meta series for qemuarm
> | ERROR. Could not apply patches for qemuarm.
> |        Patch failures can be resolved in the devshell (bitbake -c
> devshell linux-yocto-custom)
> | ERROR: Function failed: do_patch (see
> /home/anders/poky/build/tmp/work/qemuarm-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto-custom/3.8+gitAUTOINC+19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200-r1/temp/log.do_patch.8972
> for further information)
> ERROR: Task 3
> (/home/anders/poky/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-custom.bb,
> do_patch) failed with exit code '1'
>
>
> Using my own machine, I got a similar error, that
> ${MACHINE}-standard.scc didn't exist.
>
> The plan is to use a defconfig as the main configuration, and possibly
> later on add config fragments for certain featuers.
>
> However, I'm missing one step, as I'm not able to build without the
> meta/cfg/scratch/obj/qemuarm-standard.scc file.
>
> Any hints on what step I've currently overlooked would be nice...

Let me have a look at this, there were some changes to the tools for
1.4, so the
examples may need some tweaking.

We did run all the yocto-bsp tools against 1.4 and they worked, and they are
users of the same interface.

Anyway, if there's a bug, I'll follow up with a patch shortly.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
> Anders
>
> --
> Anders Darander
> ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB
>
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