Hi Randy

Thank you for your reply.

Doing, "sudo apt install --reinstall coreutils" fixed the problem with 
test not being found. I'm not sure why it was not on the system, but 
that error is fixed.

Unfortunately I've run into another problem when I try and run bitbake, 
the process fails witht he following error:

/ ports/linux/pseudo_wrappers.c:68:16: error: ‘__NR_renameat2’ 
undeclared (first use in this function)/
/
/

I'll take another look at that issue in the morning.


Andrew


On 05/12/2020 20:27, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> On 2020-12-05 2:59 p.m., Andrew Ellis wrote:
>> Hi Randy
>>
>> Thank you for your reply.
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 .
>>
>> After reading what you said about coreutils in your last message, I 
>> tried installing coreutils and got a message saying the latest 
>> version is installed. Doing "which test" doesn't yield anything. I've 
>> looked in /usr/bin/ and there is no sign of test in there.
>>
>> The version of Yocto Project I'm using is 2.5 "poky"
>>
>> Andrew
>
> Andrew,
>
> Thanks for the info about your distro and YP version.
>
> It's odd that 'test' isn't part of your coreutils install.
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/coreutils
>
> Is it possible that you have removed it somehow?
> If so you could try:
>
> $ sudo apt install --reinstall coreutils
> or
> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall coreutils
>
> ../Randy
>
> ||
>>
>> On 05/12/2020 18:54, Randy MacLeod wrote:
>>> On 2020-12-04 7:08 p.m., ajellisuk via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to compile u-boot for an iMX6 board (iMX6-Q7_Plus from 
>>>> MSC technologies), but the compile process fails with the following 
>>>> output:
>>>>
>>>>     ERROR: Unable to start bitbake server
>>>>     ERROR: Last 10 lines of server log for this session
>>>> (/home/user/msc-yocto-140/msc-ldk/build/1006/bitbake-cookerdaemon.log): 
>>>>
>>>>          self.cooker = bb.cooker.BBCooker(self.configuration,
>>>>     self.featureset)
>>>>        File
>>>> "/home/user/msc-yocto-140/msc-ldk/sources/yocto.git/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", 
>>>>
>>>>     line 197, in __init__
>>>>          self.initConfigurationData()
>>>>        File
>>>> "/home/user/msc-yocto-140/msc-ldk/sources/yocto.git/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", 
>>>>
>>>>     line 356, in initConfigurationData
>>>>          self.databuilder.parseBaseConfiguration()
>>>>        File
>>>> "/home/user/msc-yocto-140/msc-ldk/sources/yocto.git/bitbake/lib/bb/cookerdata.py", 
>>>>
>>>>     line 317, in parseBaseConfiguration
>>>>          raise bb.BBHandledException
>>>>     bb.BBHandledException
>>>>     ERROR: The following required tools (as specified by HOSTTOOLS)
>>>>     appear to be unavailable in PATH, please install them in order to
>>>>     proceed:
>>>>        test
>>>>
>>>>     ERROR: bitbake u-boot-imx -c compile –f
>>>>
>>>> I have had errors like this before, and have been to resolve by 
>>>> installing the missing tools indicated. The problem that I've got 
>>>> here is that I'm not sure what "test" is referring to. using, "sudo 
>>>> apt-get install test", doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please give me a hint as to what the problem is here.
>>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> It seems odd that you don't have coreutils/test already...
>>> Test is part of coreutils on Ubuntu-20.04:
>>>
>>> $ which test
>>> /usr/bin/test
>>> $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/test
>>> coreutils: /usr/bin/test
>>>
>>> What distro are you using for your build machine and
>>> have you installed the suggested packages?
>>> See the quick start guide and links therein:
>>>
>>> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/brief-yoctoprojectqs/brief-yoctoprojectqs.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/ref-system-requirements.html#supported-linux-distributions 
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, if you could mention the layers and version of YP code
>>> that you are using that could be helpful in general although
>>> for this issue it shouldn't matter.
>>>
>>>
>>> ../Randy
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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