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

[ChenQi]

On 07/09/2019 02:45 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Agreed, making it a non-fatal dependency just means that some eSDKs
> break, not all.  There needs to be a better fix.

But it's already in buildtools, and eSDK installation process involves 
extracting buildtools and sourcing its script.
Under which circumstances will we break some eSDKs?
Anyway, I'm trying to do something about build-sysroots recipe and will 
send out a new patch.

Regards,
Chen Qi

> Ross
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 17:53, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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