1880 2012-01-06 08:19:25 +0000 [non-gplv3] Error while building core-image-minimal for qemuarm 2012-01-27 10:28:06 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Medium normal 1.2 M3 1917 1 andrei josh meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher sgw --- --- --- oldest_to_newest 17990 0 andrei 2012-01-06 08:19:25 +0000 Here is the log. -----> NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'binutils' ERROR: binutils was skipped: incompatible with license GPLv3 ERROR: binutils was skipped: incompatible with license GPLv3 NOTE: Runtime target 'kernel-base' is unbuildable, removing... Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['kernel-base', 'binutils'] <----- This error is not fatal and finishes the build without building the kernel. I think that the problem comes from a new commit: ---> Author: Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com> 2012-01-04 03:31:19 Committer: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> 2012-01-04 13:56:41 Parent: 0ff1d667dc23b0cc903c18f1b5e032c2b6630aae (distro: Add poky-tiny distro definition) Child: 00f0d4ad649313e1a9ad2413d942cea78aa56348 (cogl: ensure we can build on armv4) Branches: master, remotes/origin/master Follows: 1.1_M4.rc3 Precedes: linux-tools: add binutils to perf DEPENDS We have witnessed non-deterministic failures of perf for some platforms whilst looking for bfd.h, a header provided by binutils. (From OE-Core rev: ab56f27d96cbd2c79ca16d12333687ca9720934c) Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> ------------------ meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-tools.inc ------------------ index 950f197..aa45dba 100644 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ addtask install_perf after do_install before do_package do_compile_perf[umask] = 022 do_install_perf[umask] = 022 -PERFDEPENDS = "virtual/${MLPREFIX}libc:do_populate_sysroot ${MLPREFIX}elfutils:do_populate_sysroot" +PERFDEPENDS = "virtual/${MLPREFIX}libc:do_populate_sysroot ${MLPREFIX}elfutils:do_populate_sysroot ${MLPREFIX}binutils:do_populate_sysroot" PERFDEPENDS_libc-uclibc = "" PERFRDEPENDS = "python perl elfutils" PERFRDEPENDS_libc-uclibc = "" <--- 18000 1 andrei 2012-01-07 07:49:22 +0000 I reverted the above mentioned commit and things are working as expected. So that is the problem. Binutils should be included in PERFDEPENDS conditionally if GPLv3 packages are accepted. Tested on a qemuarm build - image minimal. 18406 2 josh 2012-01-27 10:28:06 +0000 Workaround fix merged to master: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=494a5000325325ad855fdea9d83ace2d6b1d6997