[oe] Problem using "bitbake"

[Chris Larson]

If that's a copy/pasted line, you're referencing an 'oe' variable, likely
set in your environment?  Is it exported?  Did you add it to the bitbake
environment whitelist?  Run bitbake -e | grep \^BBFILES, and see what it
*really* ends up set to.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:00 AM, saleh usman <salehusman at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I've set BBFILES in the local.conf file as
>  *BBFILES = "${oe}/openembedded/recipes/images/helloworld-image.bb"
> *where *oe *is directory in which openembedded is placed. I've also tried
> helloworld-image.But it returned same messages.
>
> I am just following the isntructions of *Getting Started* page and using *
> helloworld-image* given in the openembedded/recipes/images directory.
>
>
> Terminal window was like this
>
>
> [saleh at localhost build]$ bitbake helloworld-image
>
>
> NOTE: Parsing finished. 0 cached, 0 parsed, 0 skipped, 0 masked.
> NOTE: Cache is clean, not saving.
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'helloworld-image'
>
>
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> From: clarson at kergoth.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:21:04 -0700
> Subject: Re: [oe] Problem using "bitbake"
> To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
> CC: salehusman at hotmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/08/2009 08:49 AM, saleh usman wrote:
>
>
> Hello
>
> I am trying to build   "helloworld_image"  given in openembedded
> recipes/images directory but the following error is occuring. Please help me
> in diagnosing the pr0blem and moving forward.
>
>
> [saleh at localhost build]$ bitbake helloworld_image
>
> NOTE: Parsing finished. 0 cached, 0 parsed, 0 skipped, 0 masked.
> NOTE: Cache is clean, not saving.
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'helloword_image'
>
>
> Try 'bitbake helloworld-image' (dash, not underscore)
>
>
> The 0 cached, 0 parsed, 0 skipped, 0 masked from the parse implies that
> BBFILES was not set correctly, or at all.
> --
> Chris Larson
> clarson at kergoth dot com
> clarson at mvista dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Software Engineer
> MontaVista Software, Inc.
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Software Engineer
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