[poky] DISTRO 'poky' not found

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 09:01 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> 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.

There should be a fix in master for this now though?

Cheers,

Richard