[yocto] some yocto/poky issues and errors

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 09:27 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 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)

Can you point at a copy of this recipe or the do_package function? At
this point its hard to guess what the problem might be. I suspect you
might be right about there being a reference to but not a definition of
a variable.

Cheers,

Richard