[yocto] problem with fetching?

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Kumar Gala
>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:42 PM
>
>I'm trying to build the MPC8135E RDB and have the following setup in conf/local.conf:
>
># Uncomment and set to allow bitbake to execute multiple tasks at once.
># For a quadcore, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4" would
># be appropriate.
>BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "16"
># Also, make can be passed flags so it run parallel threads e.g.:
>PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 16"
>
># The machine to target
>MACHINE ?= "mpc8315e-rdb"
>
>....
>
>$ bitbake  poky-image-minimal
>
>I see errors likes:
>
>Waiting for 1 active tasks to finish:
>1: linux-libc-headers-2.6.34-r1 do_fetch (pid 6952)
>NOTE: package binutils-cross-2.20.1-r3: task do_unpack: Succeeded
>NOTE: linux-libc-headers-2.6.34:
>http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.34.tar.bz2 has no entry in
>conf/checksums.ini, not checking URI
>NOTE: package linux-libc-headers-2.6.34-r1: task do_fetch: Succeeded
>ERROR:
>'virtual:native:/local/home/galak/poky-laverne-4.0/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gn
>u-config_20080123.bb' failed
>
>---
>
>if I re-run it gets further.  ideas on what's going on?
>

Could you post a full log about the error? We have a plan to improve the error message
but for now it's normally messed with other build outputs in a parallel build. You can 
perhaps grep those lines with "ERROR:".

Normally there're two possible reasons for that:
	- poor parallel make support by the package, or
	- some missing dependency problem

Above issues are usually worked around by re-run it, but it'd always good to figure out
the exact failure. :-)

Thanks
Kevin