[oe] Problem with bitbake master & OE master during fetch

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 21/12/2010 09:17, Eric Bénard wrote:
>>
>> I still haven't investigated the reason of the error.
>>
> OK the reason of the error is that the machine I'm fetching for is an arm
> and these recipes have either COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(h3600|h3900)"
> or COMPATIBLE_HOST = "i.86.*-linux"
> Same thing occur with recipes/apache/apache_2.0.54.bb
>
> which has :
> python () {
>    # Don't build apache unless we are building nativly
>    target = bb.data.getVar("TARGET_ARCH", d, 1)
>    build = bb.data.getVar("BUILD_ARCH", d, 1)
>    if target != build:
>        raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("Apache will only build nativly
> (TARGET_ARCH == BUILD_ARCH)")
> }
>
> Also, the problem is only present when doing bitbake -b the_recipe.bb
>
> .
> Doing bitbake the_recipe exit fine with the following message : "NoProvider:
> adobe-flash".
>
> If would be great if bitbake -b the_recipe.bb
>
> could exit properly instead of looping on these errors

I just pulled over a commit from poky that fixes that.  That is, at
least it doesn't error.  Unfortunately, it just returns saying 0 tasks
were run, and not *why* it didn't run anything, but it's a step in the
right direction.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics