[poky] Unable to build

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-03-07 13:12, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 07:33 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2012-03-06 07:26, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 06:52 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> After a recent update, I'm now getting this error in a previously
>>>> working setup.
>>>>
>>>> ERROR:  OE-core'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:
>>>>
>>>>        Your configuration is using stamp files including the sstate hash but your build directory was built with stamp files that do not include this.
>>>> To continue, either rebuild or switch back to the OEBasic signature handler with BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = 'OEBasic'.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using my own distro.conf (not poky.conf), and I'm not setting
>>>> BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER anywhere, so I think it should already be
>>>> set to OEBasic.  I even tried to put that line (cut&   pasted
>>>> from the error message) in local.conf - no change.
>>>>
>>>> How can I get past this, short of a complete rebuild?
>>>
>>> You've somehow merged a change like:
>>>
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta-yocto?id=ea2c8defd570bc2c4d29c6b0bd9fd84865d4e144
>>>
>>> which sets OELAYOUT_ABI = "8" and triggers the transition message about
>>> OEBasicHash. Set it to "7" and it won't show that message.
>>
>> OK, that's a workaround for now, but isn't the message incorrect?
>> Changing BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER doesn't seem to let me move on even
>> though the error message implies it should.
>
> You had an invalid configuration which is not supported. The whole idea
> of that setting is so that build directories which were built with
> layout "7", which is OEBasic layout get a message if they update to
> after the OEBasicHash change so that they either rebuild the tmp
> directory, or they revert to a commit which doesn't have the change.

But the message doesn't _really_ say that - it implies that simply
setting BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER = 'OEBasic' will work.  I think it
should just be reworded to say you have to rebuild...

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