[OE-core] How to integrate third party application software to yocto image

[Anders Darander]

Hi,

Please, don't top post.

* winiston at futuraautomation.com <winiston at futuraautomation.com> [160226 06:41]:
> I copied "recipes-navigation" folder from meta-oe (Open embedded build tree) to "/poky/meta "

> I have appended  in “conf/local.conf”  as given below

> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " navit"

> While creating the image, it spits out the following error,

> winiston at winiston-VirtualBox:~/poky/build$ bitbake qt4e-demo-image
> Loading cache: 100% |##########################| ETA:  00:00:00
> Loaded 1510 entries from dependency cache.
> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
> ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'navit' (but /home/winiston/poky/meta/recipes-qt/images/qt4e-demo-image.bb RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
> ERROR: navit was skipped: Recipe is blacklisted: bluez5 conflicts with bluez4 and bluez5 is selected in DISTRO_FEATURES

This is the error. You have bluez5 in your DITRO_FEATURES, and I assume
that navit requires bluez4? Anywya, it's blacklisted.

> NOTE: Runtime target 'navit' is unbuildable, removing...
> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['navit']
> ERROR: Required build target 'qt4e-demo-image' has no buildable providers.
> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['qt4e-demo-image', 'navit']

> Summary: There were 2 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
> winiston at winiston-VirtualBox:~/poky/build$ 

> Should I make any other setting to add the “navit” recipe to my image?
> Is this the correct method of copying  "recipes-navigation" folder  to
> "/poky/meta "  ? 

Well, it works. If you don't mind the rest of meta-oe, I'd rather add
that layer to conf/bblayers.conf. That would make it easier to get
updates to e.g. navit.

Cheers,
Anders

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Anders Darander, Senior System Architect
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB