On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 6:11 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > > was just handed a sizable YP/WRL project and i *think* i can see > what the problem is, so i'll keep it short (he said, optimistlcally). > > the symptom is that, of the dozens of layers that should end up in > bblayers.conf (all this running on a VM in a docker container), one > layer is missing, and that's the one that defines all the distro > config files, so the eventual error is: > > DISTRO 'slartibartfast' not found ... > > well, yeah, and that's pretty clearly because the corresponding layer > is, for whatever reason, not being added to bblayers.conf. so why not? > > look further into output and notice that, just above that, there is > an error that shows an essential tool cannot be found: > > ERROR: THe following required tools (as specified by HOSTTOOLS) > cannot be found ... > snafu > > and, sure enough, the missing layer does insist in its layer.conf > that: > > HOSTTOOLS += "snafu" > > so i am assuming that, because that layer was being added via > "bitbake-layers" and that layer had a HOSTTOOLS requirement that was > not satisfied, that's why the failure of the layer addition, yes? > > just to bypass this issue, is there a bitbake-layers option that > bypasses that sanity checking? i can see "-F" but that claims to > bypass recipe parse verification, which is not what this is. > > this all depends on the assumption that that failed HOSTTOOLS test > is what caused the failure of the layer addition, which cascaded down > to other errors. >
The layer is expressing that it can not work without that tool, maybe use HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL but if it is really needed then it should be installed on host and prerequisite. > rday > > >
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