Re: [yocto] #uboot Problem compiling u-boot with bitbake

["Randy MacLeod" <randy.macleod@windriver.com>]

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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