[OE-core] Failure

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 10:57 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 10:44 +0800, ChenQi wrote:
> > On 09/02/2013 10:08 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I got this build failure today; I am about to leave so I removed the
> > > tmpdir and will let it running during night. I post more info if/when
> > > I reproduce it again:
> > >
> > > Patch redhat-portability.diff does not apply (enforce with -f)
> > > ERROR: Function failed: patch_do_patch
> > > ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> > > /home/otavio/hacking/freescale/fsl-community-bsp-mx6/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/elfutils-native/0.155-r0/temp/log.do_patch.20173
> > > ERROR: Task 662
> > > (virtual:native:/home/otavio/hacking/freescale/fsl-community-bsp-mx6/sources/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.155.bb,
> > > do_patch) failed with exit code '1'
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > 
> > I got the same error now and then when building native-elfutils. Every 
> > time the error appears, I have to clean the sstate cache for elfutils.
> 
> No, you don't, you need to *clean* elfutils, sstate is just fine.
> 
> I suspect the issue is that there is some patch to the source code and
> then further modifications happen at do_configure/do_compile time. If we
> try and rerun do_patch (due to the patch.bbclass change recently), it
> can no longer unapply the patch and things fail.

It turned out to be due to patching of generated files. I've sent out a
patch to remove the patches we don't need.

Cheers,

Richard