Agreed, making it a non-fatal dependency just means that some eSDKs
break, not all.  There needs to be a better fix.

Ross

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 17:53, Richard Purdie
<richard.pur...@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.c...@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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