[poky] DISTRO 'poky' not found

[Darren Hart]

On 03/15/2011 02:40 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 14:49 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>>
>> On 03/14/2011 02:29 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> I've run into this error several times during development of various things. It will be in a build tree that I have been working with for a while, then when I come back to it, I get the following. Any idea what triggers this? I suspect something in my workflow, but I can't imagine what it would be. I'd really like to not have to delete my build tree.
>>>
>>> $ cd poky.git
>>> $ source poky-init-build-env build-qemux86/
>>>
>>> ### Shell environment set up for Poky builds. ###
>>>
>>> You can now run 'bitbake<target>'
>>>
>>> Common targets are:
>>>       poky-image-minimal
>>>       poky-image-sato
>>>       meta-toolchain
>>>       meta-toolchain-sdk
>>>
>>> You can also run generated qemu images with a command like 'poky-qemu qemux86'
>>>
>>> $ bitbake linux-yocto
>>> ERROR:  Poky's config sanity checker detected a potential misconfiguration.
>>>       Either fix the cause of this error or at your own risk disable the checker (see sanity.conf).
>>>       Following is the list of potential problems / advisories:
>>>
>>>       Please set TARGET_OS directly, or choose a MACHINE or DISTRO that does so.
>>> DISTRO 'poky' not found. Please set a valid DISTRO in your local.conf
>>
>>
>> Thanks to Beth and Mark who pointed me in the right direction. This
>> appears to be a problem with master, if I cherry-pick my changes on top
>> of the bernard branch, the build continues as expected.
>>
>
> Ah, our layers.conf.sample doesn't include the new meta-yocto layer. So
> I'm guessing this is a clean build dir?

I believe I've seen it on both - but probably only when switching 
branches back and forth between master and bernard.


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel