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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