Can you check whether the gdbserver package is in
tmp/work/.../gdb/deploy-*/ (the gdb WORKDIR), and whether it is in
tmp/deploy/... (packages deploy dir), and then whether it is in
tmp/work/..../machine-image/ (image-specific package repo)? Seems like it
gets lost at some point.

Alex

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 17:24, Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> wrote:

> HI Alexander,
>
> Thanks for your email.
>
> The  'bitbake gdb' runs through successfully. However, I still get the
> error for gdbserver when running 'bitbake machine-image'
>
> Thanks
> Ash
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 3:54 PM Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What happens when you 'bitbake gdb'?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 16:28, <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I added the following to EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES inside my local.conf,
>>>
>>>
>>> EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks tools-debug"
>>> PACKAGECONFIG_remove_pn-gdb = "readline"
>>>
>>>
>>> I also tried to add the gdbserver package explicitly by adding this to
>>> conf/local.conf:
>>>
>>>
>>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " gdbserver"
>>>
>>>
>>> However, the build failed with the following error:
>>>
>>>
>>> Collected errors:
>>>  * Solver encountered 1 problem(s):
>>>  * Problem 1/1:
>>>  *   - nothing provides gdbserver needed by
>>> packagegroup-core-tools-debug-1.0-r3.all
>>>  *
>>>  * Solution 1:
>>>  *   - do not ask to install a package providing
>>> packagegroup-core-tools-debug
>>>
>>>
>>> Would appreciate any help, as I am struggling with this issue for over a
>>> day
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ash
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>