[oe] do_rootfs and mkfs.jffs2

[Graham Gower]

On 18 December 2010 19:15, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/12/18 Scott Garman <sgarman at zenlinux.com>:
>> On 12/17/2010 02:08 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>>
>>> I just tried to make a jffs2 image, but got an error that mkfs.jffs2
>>> was not found.
>>> Apparently somewhere a dependency to mtd-utils-native should be added,
>>> but I have no idea where.
>>
>> In conf/bitbake.conf there is a line:
>>
>> IMAGE_DEPENDS_jffs2 = "mtd-utils-native"
>>
>> So one would think that would do the trick. Were you doing anything unusual
>> to generate the jffs2 image (e.g, trying to override the default image type
>> for your target)?
>
> That line is here as well.
> I did not do anything special. I was building james-image distro
> minimal target sheevaplug
> The only odd thing I noticed was that there was some mtd-utils output
> in my recipes dir.
> Maybe somewhere a build put stuff at the wrong place. Frankly no idea
> how that could happen though (and didn't verify file times before I
> nuked them.
> We'll see if it reoccurs.
>
> Frans.
>
> PS: was about to press send, then Yuri mentionen a bitbake issue
> causing output to end up at the wrong place.
> Guess I've been bitten by that and the stamps tell that the package is
> build but the exe is not there.
>
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I guess you're running bitbake master, but not quite up to date. This
mtd-utils problem is a side effect of the PWD environment variable
being incorrectly set, which has now been fixed in bitbake master.

-Graham