[oe] OE beginner constantly failing to build anything

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-10-12 13:08, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Op 12-10-11 20:25, Khem Raj schreef:
>> On 10/12/2011 5:22 AM, Rainer Koenig wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> the following lines might give you the feeling of a rant, sorry about
>>> that but after 2 weeks of no success I need to write down quickly what
>>> bothers me. Please don't feel offended by my deep desperation. ;-)
>>>
>>> My build system is running Debian/Squeeze (amd64) and I also
>>> downloaded the CodeSourcery Toolchain. Was able to compile a simple
>>> hello world with that for Angstrom, but now I wanted to build Angstrom
>>> from scratch.
>>>
>>> So I started with OE classic, tried the "getting started" from the PDF
>>> docs and failed. I learned quickly that there are version dependencies
>>> between bitbake and the version that I checkout of the OE tree. I also
>>> learned that some of the failures come because I tried to bild "old"
>>> images and meanwhile the sources that bitbake wants to fetch seem to
>>> have moved to another place or got deleted. I tried according to the
>>> wiki docs that said OE 2011.3 works with bitbake 1.12.0 but even then
>>> I failed. Last failure had to do with building libtool-2.4-cross when
>>> the build system told my that my compiler can't create binaries...
>>> after the process has build around 60+ packets without any problem.
>>>
>>> Well, I learned that OE classic is no longer maintained and that I
>>> should switch to OE-core. So I said, lets start from scratch again and
>>> see. I followed the Angstrome building instructions as they are
>>> written here:
>>> http://git.angstrom-distribution.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/angstrom-layers/tree/README
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> Did everything that was described there and faild again. This time
>>> with the following errors:
>>> ----------------8<-snip---------------------- bitbake base-image Pseudo
>>> is not present but is required, building this first before the main
>>> build NOTE: angstrom DOES NOT support libiconv because the eglibc
>>> provided iconv library is used                         | ETA:
>>> 00:04:17 NOTE: angstrom DOES NOT support libiconv because the eglibc
>>> provided iconv library is used                         | ETA:
>>> 00:04:16 NOTE: angstrom DOES NOT support gconf-dbus because gconf-dbus
>>> has been merged back into main GConf                 | ETA:  00:03:57
>>> NOTE: angstrom DOES NOT support gconf-dbus-native because gconf-dbus
>>> has been merged back into main GConf ERROR: Error Method already seen:
>>> get_tls_setting in' glx-use-tls.inc' now in 'glx-use-tls.bbclass'
>>> | ETA:  00:02:59 ERROR: Could not include required file
>>> recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xf86-dri-lite.inc | ETA:
>>> 00:02:01 ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1
>>
>> bad timing. There is a bit of churn due to xorg updates happening in
>> core layer and other layers need to adjust once the core parts are
>> settled in. This is master so expect few bleeding here and there
>> occasionally
>>
>>> ----------------8<-snip----------------------
>>>
>>> Then I read "glx-use-tls" and remembered to saw that in the list
>>> archive of today. There is a mail from Khem Raj Subject: [oe]
>>> [meta-oe][PATCH 1/2] classes/glx-use-tls.bbclass: Delete
>>>
>>> Yeah. I checked my meta-oe tree and glx-use-tls.bbclass is still
>>> there. Then I checked where that tree came from, it comes from github,
>>> but nevertheless, also the tree from http://git.openembedded.org at
>>> the moment has no patch like that applied.
>>>
>>> So I need to start questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Is there any *failsafe* procedure that lets me build some image for
>>> my beagleboard? I'm relatively new to embedded linux and I need to
>>> read a lot about bitbake and oe, but failing with every "getting
>>> started" instructions doesn't give me much confidence that I will ever
>>> succeed.
>>>
>>> 2. How are patches applied in OE? The patch from Khem Raj is not yet
>>> in the git-tree, so how can I patch it to my tree.
>>
>> with some git-fu you can. (git am) can help
>>
>> However those patches are just a workaround to keep parsing happy they
>> are not final patches that should go into repo.
>>
>>>
>>> 3. I tried to search for the bugs I encountered and found out that you
>>> have abandoned a tool like Bugzilla in favor of reporting bugs on the
>>> mailing list. From my perspective the mailing list is not very helpful
>>> to *find* information about existing bugs and their status, so is
>>> there a reason for this switch that I can understand?
>>
>> It has been discussed extensively and decision to have mailing list was
>> the outcome. You can searc through mailing list archives to gmane will
>> help you.
>>
>>>
>>> I think there are solutions for my problem, the fact that Angstrom
>>> exists and can be downloaded makes me think that somebody was able to
>>> build it from the sources, but it seems that I got the wrong moment in
>>> time for my attempts so all the sources and recipes that I'm depending
>>> on are constantly changing and I always get lost in the gory details.
>>>
>>
>> generally everybody builds from source every day its a norm with
>> openembedded.
>>
>> You could try the 2011.03 release branch which should be pretty stable
>
> Especially if you're using the angstrom setup script instead of some 'pdf'

Sadly, even this magic script is often broken.

I just updated the script to rev
I then ran (from scratch):
   % MACHINE="beagleboard" ./oebb.sh config beagleboard
     ... lots of update messages, but these errors:
   layer repository name: meta-openembedded
   layer uri: git://github.com/openembedded/meta-oe.git
   layer branch/revision: master/HEAD
   Updating layer at layers/meta-openembedded
   fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer

Trying to carry on
   % . /home/gthomas/.oe/environment-oecore
   % MACHINE="beagleboard" bitbake systemd-image
   Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the main build
   ERROR: Unable to parse /home/local/new-angstrom/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-xfce/conf/layer.conf: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/home/local/new-angstrom/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-xfce/conf/layer.conf'

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