[oe] OpenEmbedded Layer Index autobuild errors

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday, 20 March 2017 11:33:16 AM NZDT Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Monday, 20 March 2017 10:51:46 AM NZDT Max Krummenacher wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 19.03.2017, 12:04 -0400 schrieb Daniel Dickinson:
> > > On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:39:38 +0100
> > > 
> > > Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> > > > > With that change all tools which must be installed on the host need
> > > > > to be present, even if in your use case some of them might not be
> > > > > used. Did you install the prerequisites?
> > > > > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2.1/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#re
> > > > > qu
> > > > > ired-packages-for-the-ho st-dev
> > > > > elopment-system
> > > > 
> > > > The real point is that it's not his host - it's the [remote]
> > > > autobuilder tool for OpenEmbedded (IIRC)
> > > 
> > > Yes, thank you.  I'm not sure it's a full autobuilder or just parses
> > > recipes for generating the web pages, but either way it's not my host,
> > > it's an openembedded.org host.  Apparently I'm not good at explaining
> > > that...
> > 
> > My bad, sorry.
> > 
> > And it looks like the host fails to update any of the layers, e.g. also
> > openembedded-core:
> > https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/layerupdate/323749/
> > Adding Paul, as he maybe knows how to get those tools onto the server.
> 
> Ah yes - I think I may just take the cheap way out and clear HOSTTOOLS when
> parsing in the index - we're not doing any actual building, after all, so
> we're not going to be calling any of these tools).

Well, perhaps I spoke too soon. We call gcc to check its version just when 
parsing, I suspect there may be others, so maybe the safest thing is to just 
install these tools. Things are rarely as simple as they first appear...

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre