[oe] Submitted layers: build errors not seen on manual bitbake

[Daniel Dickinson]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 02:20:36 +0100
Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> On 2017-03-18 00:58, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm seeing build errors for layers I've submitted that I don't see
> > with a manual bitbake.  What do I need to do solves the following:
> >
> > raceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/cookerdata.py", line 274, in
> > parseBaseConfiguration bb.event.fire(bb.event.ConfigParsed(),
> > self.data) File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py", line 211,
> > in fire fire_class_handlers(event, d)
> >   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py", line 134, in
> > fire_class_handlers execute_handler(name, handler, event, d)
> >   File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py", line 106, in
> > execute_handler ret = handler(event)
> >   File
> > "/opt/workdir/git___git_openembedded_org_openembedded-core/meta/classes/base.bbclass",
> > line 242, in base_eventhandler
> > setup_hosttools_dir(d.expand('${TMPDIR}/hosttools'), 'HOSTTOOLS',
> > d) File
> > "/opt/workdir/git___git_openembedded_org_openembedded-core/meta/classes/base.bbclass",
> > line 139, in setup_hosttools_dir bb.fatal("The following required
> > tools (as specified by HOSTTOOLS) appear to be unavailable in PATH,
> > please install them in order to proceed:\n  %s" % "
> > ".join(notfound)) File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/__init__.py",
> > line 104, in fatal raise BBHandledException() bb.BBHandledException
> >
> > During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "update_layer.py", line 716, in <module>
> >     main()
> >   File "update_layer.py", line 216, in main
> >     (tinfoil, tempdir) = recipeparse.init_parser(settings, branch,
> > bitbakepath, nocheckout=options.nocheckout, logger=logger) File
> > "/opt/layerindex/layerindex/recipeparse.py", line 75, in
> > init_parser tinfoil = utils.setup_tinfoil(bitbakepath,
> > enable_tracking) File "/opt/layerindex/layerindex/utils.py", line
> > 144, in setup_tinfoil tinfoil.prepare(config_only = True) File
> > "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/tinfoil.py", line 210, in prepare
> > extrafeatures) File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/main.py", line
> > 517, in setup_bitbake server = start_server(servermodule,
> > configParams, configuration, featureset) File
> > "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/main.py", line 357, in start_server
> > cooker = bb.cooker.BBCooker(configuration, features) File
> > "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 195, in __init__
> > self.initConfigurationData() File
> > "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 358, in
> > initConfigurationData self.databuilder.parseBaseConfiguration()
> > File "/opt/workdir/bitbake/lib/bb/cookerdata.py", line 299, in
> > parseBaseConfiguration raise bb.BBHandledException
> > bb.BBHandledException ERROR: The following required tools (as
> > specified by HOSTTOOLS) appear to be unavailable in PATH, please
> > install them in order to proceed: cpio chrpath gawk diffstat
> > makeinfo 
> 
> This one is pretty obvious - the OE-core metadata now checks for
> a set of required tools (beyond the initial sanity check).  Your
> machine (or background user that you are using for building these
> layers) doesn't have access to them.  You'll need to install that
> set of tools, namely:
>    cpio chrpath gawk diffstat makeinfo
> 

This is on the autobuild hosted by at openembedded.org not something I
have control over.  I was kind of hoping you would have a different
answer (though didn't expect so), for some reason.