[oe] [meta-oe] add-layers fails with python error

[Daniel F. Dickinson]

On 23/01/18 02:30 AM, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote:
> On 23/01/18 01:50 AM, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote:
>> I'm not sure which list this belongs on, but since it's an attempt to 
>> use meta-oe that triggers the error, I post it here.  I've seen others 
>> reporting this issue prior to this, so perhaps it's related to the 
>> build environment?  (I'm on Debian 9).
>>
>> Steps:
>>
>> Checkout bitbake branch 1.34 (also occurs with 1.32 & 1.36)
>> Checkout oe-core master (also occurs with rocko)
>> Checkout meta-openembedded master (also occurs with rocko)
>>
>> source oe-init-env
>>
>> bitbake-layers add-layer /path/to/meta-openembedded/meta-oe
>>
> [snip]
> 
> Seems this is actually a core issue (bitbake -c listtasks
> with only core's autogenerated build dir gives a similar,
> but shorter, traceback).
> 
> Perhaps it's significant that I see:
> 
> 
> LAYERVERSION_core = "11" in oe-core/meta/layers.conf
> and LCONF_VERSION = "7" in build/bblayers.conf?
> 
FYI git version f43290f6e302dbacf5581d1fe1c6c991dd387779 works (I had a 
previous checkout with that version, which was working,so I guess I'll 
try git bisect.