[yocto] some yocto/poky issues and errors

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/11/3 Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> Not sure whether I should sent this here or to the poky ML. Trying
> here first, fee free to forward/redirect.
>
> After my initial success of building poky 4.0 with the delivered
> config, I decided to try to add my own layer (with some private
> recipes), meanwhile also switching to MACHINE = "beagleboard". These
> recipes build under OE.
> In order to get things parsing I had to rework a few legacy staging
> things (no big deal).
>
> Also I got an error:
> NOTE: Handling BitBake files: - (0053/0886) [ 5 %]NOTE: Error
> expanding variable do_package
> ERROR: string index out of range while parsing
> /home/frans/yocto/poky-laverne-4.0/tv.axon.openembedded.2010/recipes/linux/linux-factory-sygtd1_2.6.34.bb
>
> For now I removed the do_package function. No idea if that is sound.
>
> After doing so the parsing goes well but I get an interesting
> traceback, even if no recipe is given. See the log below.
> I suspect this is because a var is referenced somewhere but the var is
> not initialised. Guess this should not happen.
> Then again my pythonese is not good enough to diagnose this.
> Any suggestion is appreciated (meanwhile I'll try to use bisecting to
> find the cause).
>
> Best regards, Frans

Nevermind, already found the cause of the traceback. I accidently ran
bitbake in the wrong dir.
My default setup is such that BBPATH etc is set in such a way that I
can effectively run bitbake from any dir once the env is set.
Guess it would be nice if bitbake would have given a decent error msg though.

Frans (btw: still confused on the do_package thing)