[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] buildtools-tarball: add nativesdk-libxml2-utils

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 15:37 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
> For build-sysroots.bb, the xmlcatalog would not be in its
> staging directory. Causing the following error for eSDK.
> 
> ERROR: build-sysroots-1.0-r0 do_build_native_sysroot: Command
> '/PATH/TO/IMAGE/testsdkext/tmp/sysroots/x86_64/usr/bin/postinst-
> docbook-xml-dtd4-native-xmlcatalog' returned non-zero exit status
> 127.
> ERROR: build-sysroots-1.0-r0 do_build_native_sysroot: Function
> failed: do_build_native_sysroot
> 
> The problem could be reproduced by the following steps.
> 1. Add in local.conf:
>    IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " btrfs-tools"
>    DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " api-documentation"
>    INHERIT += "testsdk"
> 2. bitbake core-image-minimal -c populate_sdk_ext
> 3. bitbake core-image-minimal -c testsdkext
> 
> So we add nativesdk-libxml2-utils to buildtools-tarball
> to ensure the existence of xmlcatalog. Also add it
> to HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL so it could be seen by bitbake.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf                       | 3 +++
>  meta/recipes-core/meta/buildtools-tarball.bb | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> index 5e93f5c..2f64eae 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> @@ -517,6 +517,9 @@ HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "scp"
>  # Link to git-lfs if present
>  HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "git-lfs"
>  
> +# build-sysroot needs xmlcatalog in order for eSDK installation
> +HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "xmlcatalog"

I don't mind the buildtools-tarball change but HOSTTOOLS is starting to
grow to contain far too much random stuff which could impact
reproduciblity.

Is there some other way we could fix this? It still feels like a
dependency problem which we chould fix by adding a missing dependency
although I appreciate its far from being that simple.

I wonder if there is a way we could teach build-sysroots to be cleverer
about dependencies?

Cheers,

Richard