[oe] sanity test problems at end of build

[Koen Kooi]

On 27-11-08 15:53, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
> 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).

Don't use dash as shell, too many things have bashisms, like libtool.

regards,

Koen