[oe] [meta-python] python-pygobject is not building and installing gi (gi.repository etc) modules on the target

[Jussi Kukkonen]

On 11 July 2017 at 00:49, Brownson Obele <brownson4u at gmail.com> wrote:

>    1. The main python module i am trying to add to my yocto build image is
>    LDTP (https://github.com/ldtp/ldtp2). Using devtool, i have been able
> to
>    create a recipe for it which seems to build without any errors. It is
> only
>    when i try to run ldtp on the target that i see that certain
> dependencies
>    are missing.
>    2. So i am currently stuck at creating recipes for the dependencies.
>    3. Right now, below is where i am stuck
>       1. When i run ldtp, it trys to do an import from gi.repository XXX
>       and then complains that there is no module called "*gi.repository*"
> but
>       I have a recipe python-pygobject_2.28.3.bb which i expect to build
>       and then install (create) the gi folder and its contents on the
> target.
>       Somehow this is not happenning and i'm stuck trying to find out why.
>

That version number sounds _very_ old.

Which oe-core / meta-openembedded release are you on? Proper
gobject-introspection support was added into oe-core early 2016, I think
Krogoth was the first release where it really works (but please read the
release notes, it's been a while).

Jussi