Agreed, making it a non-fatal dependency just means that some eSDKs break, not all. There needs to be a better fix.
Ross On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 17:53, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 15:37 +0800, Chen Qi wrote: > > For build-sysroots.bb, the xmlcatalog would not be in its > > staging directory. Causing the following error for eSDK. > > > > ERROR: build-sysroots-1.0-r0 do_build_native_sysroot: Command > > '/PATH/TO/IMAGE/testsdkext/tmp/sysroots/x86_64/usr/bin/postinst- > > docbook-xml-dtd4-native-xmlcatalog' returned non-zero exit status > > 127. > > ERROR: build-sysroots-1.0-r0 do_build_native_sysroot: Function > > failed: do_build_native_sysroot > > > > The problem could be reproduced by the following steps. > > 1. Add in local.conf: > > IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " btrfs-tools" > > DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " api-documentation" > > INHERIT += "testsdk" > > 2. bitbake core-image-minimal -c populate_sdk_ext > > 3. bitbake core-image-minimal -c testsdkext > > > > So we add nativesdk-libxml2-utils to buildtools-tarball > > to ensure the existence of xmlcatalog. Also add it > > to HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL so it could be seen by bitbake. > > > > Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <qi.c...@windriver.com> > > --- > > meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 3 +++ > > meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb | 1 + > > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf > > index 5e93f5c..2f64eae 100644 > > --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf > > +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf > > @@ -517,6 +517,9 @@ HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "scp" > > # Link to git-lfs if present > > HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "git-lfs" > > > > +# build-sysroot needs xmlcatalog in order for eSDK installation > > +HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "xmlcatalog" > > I don't mind the buildtools-tarball change but HOSTTOOLS is starting to > grow to contain far too much random stuff which could impact > reproduciblity. > > Is there some other way we could fix this? It still feels like a > dependency problem which we chould fix by adding a missing dependency > although I appreciate its far from being that simple. > > I wonder if there is a way we could teach build-sysroots to be cleverer > about dependencies? > > Cheers, > > Richard > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
