[OE-core] eglibc_2.17.bb: Failure expanding variable SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION[:=]

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

Any ideas or suggestions at this point would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.


On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:57:41PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone seen this error before? It happens for me quite often, but not 
> always, on Dylan branch during initial parsing:
> 
> Parsing recipes...
> ERROR: ExpansionError during parsing .../oe-core/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.17.bb:
>   Failure expanding variable SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION[:=], expression was ${@get_optimization(d)}
>   which triggered exception NameError: name 'get_optimization' is not defined
> ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1
> 
> 
> Looking at the code, I don't see anything suspicious:
> 
> # eglibc can't be built without optimization, if someone tries to compile an
> # entire image as -O0, we override it with -O2 here and give a note about it.
> def get_optimization(d):
>     selected_optimization = d.getVar("SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION", True)
>     if base_contains("SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION", "-O0", "x", "", d) == "x":
>         bb.note("eglibc can't be built with -O0, -O2 will be used instead.")
>         return selected_optimization.replace("-O0", "-O2")
>     return selected_optimization
> 
> SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION := "${@get_optimization(d)}"
> 
> 
> It sounds like by the time SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION tries to make an assignment 
> with immediate var expansion, get_optimization() function is not yet defined.
> 
> This happens with high BB_NUM_THREADS and bitbake 1.18. Trying bitbake from 
> master on Dylan gives "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 
> 'rfind'", but that's another story.
> 
> Anyone has any clues or suggestions? Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Denys
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