Re: bitbake gstreamer1.0 : "Nothing PROVIDES 'gobject-introspection'"

From: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
To: Tarun Tej K <tarun4690@gmail.com>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: bitbake gstreamer1.0 : "Nothing PROVIDES 'gobject-introspection'"
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 16:14:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANNYZj9_WHwO4iM1dkhQDKkBXfeNyNdA7cAioh7=D-5DEgLb2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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What is the issue though? You need to be clear about it: paste the
exact, specific error message you are getting.

Generally, I would recommend that you update to the latest YP release
first. Backporting recipes in this fashion is a complicated task.

Alex

2018-09-05 15:36 GMT+02:00 Tarun Tej K <tarun4690@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build the latest gstreamer version 1.14.2 using the yocto
> recipes from
> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/tree/master/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer
>
> I have added new version recipes to my custom yocto layer; added the
> required .bbclass files to 'classes' directory inside my custom layer. There
> are older version (1.4.5, 1.6.0) recipes in other layers but my layer has
> higher priority so the 'bitbake -s' shows 1.14.2 as the version of gstreamer
> family, so that proves the recipes are successfully parsed.
>
> After that I am trying to build gstreamer1.0 using the command 'bitbake
> gstreamer1.0' but I get an error saying
> Nothing PROVIDES 'gobject-introspection' ..........
> Close matches:
> gobject-introspection-stub
> gobject-introspection-native
>
> I have verified that the gobject-introspection.bbclass file has been added
> to classed directory of my layer. I have removed gobject-introspection from
> the inherit list in the  gstreamer1.0_1.14.2.bb and it successfully
> continued to bitbake until some 'installed but not shipped' error occurred
> at do_package_qa task. Also another class 'upstream-version-is-even.bbclass'
> is also inherited by gstreamer1.0_1.14.2.bb and that is also present in same
> directory as gobject-introspection.bbclass but I don't get any error with
> that.
>
> I am using the yocto setup cloned from freescale's repository
> (http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git/tree/imx-4.1.15-1.1.2.xml?h=imx-4.1.15-1.0.0_ga),
> so this might contain older dependency libraries. Also the bitbake version
> is 1.28.0
>
> What could be the problem? Please let me know if I need to provide any
> additional information to understand issue better.
>
> Thanks
> Tarun
>
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