[oe] Exception.ValueError during build

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

On Thursday 05 June 2008 20:43:37 Paul Blacquiere wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While trying to build (independent of what machine or distro) I get the
> following error almost immediately.
>
> ********************************************************************
> $>  bitbake helloworld-image
>
> NOTE: Out of date cache found, rebuilding...
> NOTE: Handling BitBake files: | (0001/0001) [100 %]
> NOTE: Parsing finished. 0 cached, 1 parsed, 0 skipped, 0 masked.

This looks like either BitBake does not find your configuration directory 
(double check BBPATH) or you are missing the path to your BitBake files 
(double check BBFILES in your local.conf).

[...]

> NOTE: build 200806060630: started
> NOTE: <type 'exceptions.ValueError'>:substring not found while evaluating:
> ${@base_get_metadata_monotone_revision(d)}
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 134, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 131, in main
>     cooker.cook()
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 636, in cook
>     return self.buildTargets(pkgs_to_build)
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 527, in buildTargets
>     bb.event.fire(bb.event.BuildStarted(buildname, targets,
> self.configuration.event_data))
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py", line 67, in fire
>     if tmpHandler(event) == Handled:
>   File "tmpHandler(e)", line 31, in tmpHandler
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/data.py", line 97, in getVar
>     return d.getVar(var,exp)
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 170, in getVar
>     return self.expand(value,var)
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 85, in expand
>     s = __expand_python_regexp__.sub(python_sub, s)
>   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 71, in python_sub
>     s = eval(code)
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<bb>", line 4, in base_get_metadata_monotone_revision
>   File "<bb>", line 4, in base_get_scmbasepath
> ValueError: substring not found

Fwiw, we should catch this error and put something more sane out.

:M:
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