[yocto] esdk without using Poky?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-11-01 21:33, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:36:57 Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2016-10-31 23:06, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> FYI the eSDK will use whatever you set in DISTRO - you have your own
>>> distribution, but I assume you are still referencing poky - perhaps as an
>>> include from your distro configuration? At least meta-poky must be in your
>>> bblayers.conf, otherwise I don't think you'd be getting this error.
>>>
>>> Regardless of that, there is a bug here somewhere. What do you have under
>>> layers/ in the generated SDK? Are you setting TEMPLATECONF anywhere?
>>
>> I don't have meta-poky, nor any mention of poky, in any of my layers.
>> I'm still relying on the poky GIT tree, but that's for historical reasons
>> (started long before the OE-core split).
>
> I think that's where the problem lies. You may not realise it, but the
> TEMPLATECONF environment variable is being set simply by using the poky
> repository, since there is a .templateconf directory at its root that sets it
> to "meta-poky/conf" if it isn't already set. This isn't a problem during
> normal operation since meta-poky/conf exists there - you'll just be using
> poky's template local.conf and bblayers.conf rather than any other. When you
> generate the eSDK though, meta-poky won't be copied into the eSDK because that
> layer is not in your bblayers.conf and thus you get the error.
>
> I will have to try and figure a way around this. In the mean time you should
> be able to change the saved value in <builddir>/conf/templateconf.cfg to
> "meta/conf" to work around the issue, but it'll come back if you create a new
> build directory unless you set TEMPLATECONF in the external environment before
> running oe-init-build-env.

I'm still confused.  There is no mention of meta-poky, or of the $DISTRO 'poky'
anywhere in my <builddir>/conf:
   gthomas at europa:p8701_2016-10-22$ cat conf/templateconf.cfg
   meta-rainier-am335x-p8701/conf
   gthomas at europa:p8701_2016-10-22$ grep -i poky conf/*
   conf/bblayers.conf:  /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta \
   conf/bblayers.conf:  /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-oe \
   conf/bblayers.conf:  /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-amltd \
   conf/bblayers.conf:  /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-rainier-am335x-p8701 \
   conf/bblayers.conf:  /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-ti \
   conf/bblayers.conf:  /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-webserver \


>
> You're right in your implication that I hadn't tested this - I had tested
> alternative distros with the oe-core repo but not with the poky repo, so I
> hadn't encountered this issue. I've filed a bug [1] to track the issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10568
>

Thanks

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