[oe] sanity test problems at end of build

[Valentin Longchamp]

On Thursday 27 November 2008 12:44:24 Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 27-11-08 12:27, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> On 27-11-08 11:42, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Sorry if it is a repost, but I have got not answer and have not seen my
> >>> mail in the mailing-list archives, so I send it again
> >>
> >> I know the problem exists for some people, but I have never been able to
> >> reproduce it. People having this problem should debug why ncurses
> >> suddenly decides to mess up its .la files. Or better, look at the .la
> >> files to see what's triggering insane.bbclass
> >>
> >>> I had read that this could have something to do with the fact that -tmp
> >>> was in the name of the tmp build dir. However it is not the case
> >
> > I guess it may be the case. Somebody mentioned a theory, that it is
> > caused by TMPDIR set in the local.conf. Your local.conf sets TMPDIR.
> >
> > Could you comment TMPDIR out and then rebuild your image from scratch?
>
> That theory has already been debunked. Not setting TMPDIR opens up a
> whole other can of worms.
>

Well, maybe it has been debunked, but it did the trick for me ... but I really 
don't understand why.

Could it be possible that it is a dash/bash issue ? (both the systems I work 
on are ubuntu-based and use dash).

Regards

Valentin