[poky] How to deal with ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'perf'

[Joshua Lock]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 20:55 +0200, Francis Meyvis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using yocto's bernard and trying to build for an arm board (igep0020).
> For this I created meta/conf/machines/igep0020.conf.
> And my build/conf/local.conf's MACHINE is set as ipep0020
> As a start I used the content of the existing beagleboard.conf for igep0020.conf
> I have also this line in my local.conf:
> EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "dbg-pkgs dev-pkgs tools-sdk tools-debug
> tools-profile tools-testapps debug-tweaks"
> 
> A bitbake seems to fail each time with these messages below.
> If I limit the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES as follows "dbg-pkgs dev-pkgs
> tools-sdk debug-tweaks" building starts
> But I'm keen on also having debugging tools available (like strace) on
> the target ...
> 
> What am I missing? Thanks

I'm not too familiar with the igep layer, I assume it's not using the
one of the yocto-linux kernel recipes?

perf must be enabled in individual kernel recipes, the yocto kernels do
this through the inherited linux-tools.inc

> Should I also post my problem on the yocto mailing list?

This list is the right one for build system issues :-)

Regards,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Build System Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre