[poky] bitbake gs failed

[Joshua Lock]

On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 14:45 +0800, Kang Kai wrote:
> Hi Saul,
> 
> When I import gs (ghostscript) from oe, I copy the whole directory of gs 
> from oe and put it at meta/recipes-extend/gs.  When run 'bitbake gs', 
> the bitbake comlains:
> 
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'gs'
> ERROR: Command execution failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/mnt/sda8/poky-neil/bitbake/lib/bb/command.py", line 102, in 
> runAsyncCommand
>      commandmethod(self.cmds_async, self, options)
>    File "/mnt/sda8/poky-neil/bitbake/lib/bb/command.py", line 200, in 
> buildTargets
>      command.cooker.buildTargets(pkgs_to_build, task)
>    File "/mnt/sda8/poky-neil/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 827, in 
> buildTargets
>      taskdata.add_provider(localdata, self.status, k)
>    File "/mnt/sda8/poky-neil/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 353, in 
> add_provider
>      self.add_provider_internal(cfgData, dataCache, item)
>    File "/mnt/sda8/poky-neil/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 373, in 
> add_provider_internal
>      raise bb.providers.NoProvider(item)
> NoProvider: gs
> 
> The bb file is in attachment.
> Would you like to help me to check it?
> Thank you!
> Kai

This means the dependency chain for gs is broken, when pulling a recipe
from somewhere else you need to ensure all of its dependencies are
present too:

DEPENDS = "jpeg zlib fontconfig cups gs-tools-native"

I don't think we have cups or gs-tools-native in oe-core?

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