[poky] bitbake gs failed

[Scott Garman]

On 04/29/2011 07:57 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 4/29/11 9:24 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> 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:
>
> This is an example of an error condition that needs to be improved.  The error
> nothing provides 'gs' is misleading.  We have something that provides "gs", what
> we don't have are the dependencies of gs.  It would be really nice to correct
> the error message to indicate that, and then skip the traceback.

This is definitely a use case I'm planning to fix for Yocto 1.1.

Scott

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Scott Garman
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