Is anybody able to actually BUILD the Angstrom release?

[Philip Balister]

Try running

export BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="OE_BASE"

then run

bitbake console-image

Philip

David Hagood wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 13:29 -0500, Cliff Brake wrote:
>> Probably means your OE meta dir is not in the BBPATH or BBFILES ...
>>
> Evidently having the actual Bitbake dir in the BBPATH was causing this.
> 
>> I have my own OE env setup scripts, but just out of curiosity I ran
>> through http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_Started, and
>> everything seems to work as advertised. 
> 
> I have. I get an error on bitbake.
> 
> Let's take it from the top:
> 
>  ls 
> build  cache  download	downloads  openembedded  set_env
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> ls /space/bitbake-1.8.12/
> AUTHORS  ChangeLog  conf     COPYING  lib	PKG-INFO
> bin	 classes    contrib  doc      MANIFEST	setup.py
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> ls /space/OpenEmbedded/openembedded/
> classes  contrib      files	   packages  removal.txt
> conf	 COPYING.MIT  MAINTAINERS  README    site
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> unset CDPATH
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> OE_BASE="/space/OpenEmbedded/"
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> BITBAKE_BASE="/space/bitbake-1.8.12"
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded>
> BBFILES="${OE_BASE}openembedded/packages/*/*.bb"
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> BBPATH="${OE_BASE}build:
> ${OE_BASE}openembedded"
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> 
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> PATH=$PATH:${BITBAKE_BASE}/bin
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> 
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> CACHE="${OE_BASE}cache"
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> export OE_BASE BBFILES BBPATH CACHE
> PATH
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded>  cat build/conf/local.conf
> PARALLEL_MAKE="-j2"
> BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "2"
> DISTRO = "angstrom-2008.1"
> MACHINE = "beagleboard"
> DL_DIR="${OE_BASE}downloads"
> CACHE="${OE_BASE}cache"
> ddhagood at sage:/space/OpenEmbedded> cd build
> ddhagood at sage:..OpenEmbedded/build>  bitbake task-base
> ERROR: no files to build.
> 
> NOTE: Parsing finished. 0 cached, 0 parsed, 0 skipped, 0 masked.
> NOTE: Cache is clean, not saving.
> NOTE: build 200812191308: started
> NOTE: <type 'exceptions.IndexError'>:list index out of range while
> evaluating:
> ${@base_detect_branch(d)}
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/bin/bitbake", line 143, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/bin/bitbake", line 140, in main
>     cooker.cook()
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 644, in cook
>     return self.buildTargets(pkgs_to_build)
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 531, in
> buildTargets
>     bb.event.fire(bb.event.BuildStarted(buildname, targets,
> self.configuration.event_data))
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/event.py", line 67, in fire
>     if tmpHandler(event) == Handled:
>   File "tmpHandler(e)", line 31, in tmpHandler
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/data.py", line 97, in getVar
>     return d.getVar(var,exp)
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 167, in getVar
>     return self.expand(value,var)
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 85, in expand
>     s = __expand_python_regexp__.sub(python_sub, s)
>   File "/space/bitbake-1.8.12/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 71, in
> python_sub
>     s = eval(code)
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<bb>", line 6, in base_detect_branch
>   File "<bb>", line 3, in base_get_metadata_git_branch
>   File "<bb>", line 4, in base_get_scmbasepath
> IndexError: list index out of range
> ddhagood at sage:..OpenEmbedded/build> 
> 
> Other than the base directory I am using, this is straight out of the
> Wiki.
> 
> This DID work with the Debian provided BitBake (to the extent that it
> would at least TRY to build the files).
> 
> 
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