[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] buildtools-tarball: add nativesdk-libxml2-utils

[ChenQi]

On 07/09/2019 12:47 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 15:37 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
>> For build-sysroots.bb, the xmlcatalog would not be in its
>> staging directory. Causing the following error for eSDK.
>>
>> ERROR: build-sysroots-1.0-r0 do_build_native_sysroot: Command
>> '/PATH/TO/IMAGE/testsdkext/tmp/sysroots/x86_64/usr/bin/postinst-
>> docbook-xml-dtd4-native-xmlcatalog' returned non-zero exit status
>> 127.
>> ERROR: build-sysroots-1.0-r0 do_build_native_sysroot: Function
>> failed: do_build_native_sysroot
>>
>> The problem could be reproduced by the following steps.
>> 1. Add in local.conf:
>>     IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " btrfs-tools"
>>     DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " api-documentation"
>>     INHERIT += "testsdk"
>> 2. bitbake core-image-minimal -c populate_sdk_ext
>> 3. bitbake core-image-minimal -c testsdkext
>>
>> So we add nativesdk-libxml2-utils to buildtools-tarball
>> to ensure the existence of xmlcatalog. Also add it
>> to HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL so it could be seen by bitbake.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/conf/bitbake.conf                       | 3 +++
>>   meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb | 1 +
>>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
>> index 5e93f5c..2f64eae 100644
>> --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
>> +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
>> @@ -517,6 +517,9 @@ HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "scp"
>>   # Link to git-lfs if present
>>   HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "git-lfs"
>>   
>> +# build-sysroot needs xmlcatalog in order for eSDK installation
>> +HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "xmlcatalog"
> I don't mind the buildtools-tarball change but HOSTTOOLS is starting to
> grow to contain far too much random stuff which could impact
> reproduciblity.
>
> Is there some other way we could fix this? It still feels like a
> dependency problem which we chould fix by adding a missing dependency
> although I appreciate its far from being that simple.
>
> I wonder if there is a way we could teach build-sysroots to be cleverer
> about dependencies?

I'll try to implement it and send out a new patch.

Regards,
Chen Qi

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>