Exception.ValueError during build

[Paul Blacquiere]

Hi,

Thanks :M:

ne 2008 10:24:22 am Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2008 20:43:37 Paul Blacquiere wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While trying to build (independent of what machine or distro) I get the
> > following error almost immediately.
> >
> > ********************************************************************
> > $>  bitbake helloworld-image
> >
> > NOTE: Out of date cache found, rebuilding...
> > NOTE: Handling BitBake files: | (0001/0001) [100 %]
> > NOTE: Parsing finished. 0 cached, 1 parsed, 0 skipped, 0 masked.
>
> This looks like either BitBake does not find your configuration directory
> (double check BBPATH) or you are missing the path to your BitBake files
> (double check BBFILES in your local.conf).


Yes BBFILES was the problem, I had

BBFILES = "/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/*/*.bb"

instead of

BBFILES = "/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/*/*.bb"


>
> [...]
>
> > NOTE: build 200806060630: started
> > NOTE: <type 'exceptions.ValueError'>:substring not found while
> > evaluating: ${@base_get_metadata_monotone_revision(d)}
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 134, in <module>
> >     main()
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 131, in main
> >     cooker.cook()
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 636, in cook
> >     return self.buildTargets(pkgs_to_build)
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 527, in buildTargets
> >     bb.event.fire(bb.event.BuildStarted(buildname, targets,
> > self.configuration.event_data))
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/event.py", line 67, in fire
> >     if tmpHandler(event) == Handled:
> >   File "tmpHandler(e)", line 31, in tmpHandler
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/data.py", line 97, in getVar
> >     return d.getVar(var,exp)
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 170, in getVar
> >     return self.expand(value,var)
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 85, in expand
> >     s = __expand_python_regexp__.sub(python_sub, s)
> >   File "/stuff/bitbake/lib/bb/data_smart.py", line 71, in python_sub
> >     s = eval(code)
> >   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "<bb>", line 4, in base_get_metadata_monotone_revision
> >   File "<bb>", line 4, in base_get_scmbasepath
> > ValueError: substring not found
>
> Fwiw, we should catch this error and put something more sane out.
>
> :M:

PaulB.