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

[ChenQi]

On 07/09/2019 09:38 AM, ChenQi wrote:
> On 07/09/2019 12:47 AM, Richard Purdie 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?
>
> I'll try to implement it and send out a new patch.
>

Hi Richard and Ross,

Unfortunately I cannot figure out a good way to implement this.
Could you please help giving me some hints?

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

> Regards,
> Chen Qi
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>