[OE-core] Problem with buildtools-tarball / nativesdk-ncurses / nativesdk-python

[Mark Hatle]

On 6/19/13 2:56 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 21:05 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> My host system's python version is too old due to the recent changes.  So I
>> built a temporary python 2.7.3 version.  Built the 'buildtools-tarball' and then
>> installed it.  When I switch to the included python it no longer works.
>>
>> I did some digging, the problem in the end is related to ncurses within the
>> nativesdk.
>>
>> Running the following:
>>    py_v26_check=`python -c 'import sys; print sys.version_info >= (2,6,3)'`
>> which python
>> echo "$py_v26_check" | od -c
>>    if [ "$py_v26_check" != "True" ]; then
>>            echo "BitBake requires Python 2.7.3 or later"
>>            exit 1
>>    fi
>>
>> You can see the difference in behavior:
>>
>> TERM=xterm
>>
>> /home/lmhatle/build-qemux86_64-2/buildtools/sysroots/x86_64-wrlinuxsdk-linux/usr/bin/python
>> 0000000 033   [   ?   1   0   3   4   h   T   r   u   e  \n
>> 0000015
>> BitBake requires Python 2.7.3 or later
>>
>> -----
>>
>> TERM=vt100
>>
>> /home/lmhatle/build-qemux86_64-2/buildtools/sysroots/x86_64-wrlinuxsdk-linux/usr/bin/python
>> 0000000   T   r   u   e  \n
>> 0000005
>>
>> -----
>>
>> So as you can see specifying a different terminal type is happily changing the
>> output of python.  When I use my locally built version, I don't get the same
>> behavior.  I always get the second version.
>>
>> So is there a problem with the nativesdk python, nativesdk ncurses or???
>>
>> (I've not yet filed a bug on this, but I will if I can't figure it out soon.)
>
> We've seen this issue but I thought we'd fixed it.
>
> Which version of master did you do this with? This was supposed to be
> fixed by
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=c281cd149bdbce29fc69cb34c65c4295cfed2060 and http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=534c4d0f1e287d0ac82504b273a5497d3457582a

I have verified that I have both patches applied.  I will continue debugging and 
work on the strace next...

FYI this is a x86_64 - CentOS 6.4 machine if it matters..

> If you're still having problems, please strace the above python command
> and see where its looking for terminfo...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>