[OE-core] glibc build error when it is rebuild due hash mismatch

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 09:52 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > From time to time I see following error:
> > 
> > | /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
> > /home/otavio/src/yocto/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-oel-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/build-arm-oel-linux-gnueabi/gnu/option-groups.h
> > /home/otavio/src/yocto/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-oel-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/image/usr/include/gnu/option-groups.h
> > | /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
> > /home/otavio/src/yocto/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-oel-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/build-arm-oel-linux-gnueabi/gnu/lib-names-hard.h
> > /home/otavio/src/yocto/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-oel-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/image/usr/include/gnu/lib-names-hard.h
> > | msgfmt -o rw.mo rw.po
> > | /bin/bash: msgfmt: command not found
> > | Makefile:84: recipe for target 'rw.mo' failed
> > | make[2]: *** [rw.mo] Error 127
> > | make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > | make[2]: Leaving directory
> > '/home/otavio/src/yocto/build/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-oel-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/git/po'
> > | Makefile:234: recipe for target 'po/subdir_install' failed
> > 
> > and it seems to happen when a rebuild of glibc is triggered due a
> > change in the sstate hash. The host is a very minimal system so it
> > explains why it does not provide the msgfmt in host and also might
> > explain why it is not being catch in Yocto Project AB.
> 
> 
> are we missing a dependency on gettext-native ? it could be that AB slaves have gettext installed on host
> and you don’t.

Agreed, this does look like a missing gettext-native dependency
somewhere in the system. Unfortunately gettext(native) is a pretty heavy
dependency too :(

Cheers,

Richard