Bug 3551

Summary:	bitbake -c populate_sdk core-image-minimal fails due to missing dependency of bash
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Mark Hatle <mark.hatle>
Component:	devtools / tool chain	Assignee:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	bluelightning, jessica.zhang, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version:	1.3
Target Milestone:	1.4
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	---

Description Mark Hatle 2012-12-07 18:09:42 UTC

When attempting to create an SDK based on core-image-minimal, the install fails as components of eglibc (eglibc-utils-2.16-r17) require 'bash'.

I suspect that we either need to remove the bash dependency (bash scripts) or add bash as a known runtime dependency of eglibc.

It might be easiest to audit the bash scripts in eglibc-utils and convert them to work with standard posix shell.  Note, I believe some of this work has been done upstream.

Comment 1 Laurentiu Palcu 2012-12-11 15:27:30 UTC

I tested this with the latest master (52a9ae643f8a0c7856681cfb9c6c0521ace253fd) and the toolchain tarball is created as expected. You can reopen it if you provide a method to reproduce it. I was unable to...

Comment 2 Mark Hatle 2012-12-11 15:41:40 UTC

The eglibc-utils package includes /usr/bin/tzselect.  This script requires 'bash' at runtime, but there is no RDEPENDS_${PN}-utils in the recipe.

So for a completely fresh build:

bitbake -c populate_sdk core-image-minimal

You will get a failure, because nothing else in the system requires bash.

To fix the problem the bash-isms in eglibc should be removed, or an explicit dependency on bash should be declared.  (The former is a better solution.)

Comment 3 Mark Hatle 2012-12-11 15:54:09 UTC

Possible solution:

http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00671.html

Comment 4 Laurentiu Palcu 2012-12-11 15:57:30 UTC

I just did a completely fresh bitbake -c populate_sdk core-image-minimal and the build finished successfully. No tmp/ no sstate-cache/. Just the downloads/ directory.

Comment 5 Laurentiu Palcu 2012-12-11 16:06:07 UTC

Also, it would be very helpful if you provided the commit you used to reproduce it, MACHINE, SDKMACHINE and what other steps other than running "bitbake -c populate_sdk core-image-minimal" you ran.

Comment 6 Paul Eggleton 2012-12-12 08:35:31 UTC

FYI I'm testing a reworked version of the patch linked above.

Comment 7 Paul Eggleton 2012-12-12 14:16:19 UTC

Patch has been sent for review.

Comment 8 Paul Eggleton 2012-12-14 11:03:14 UTC

Fix merged in the following commit:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=2f85e62b896ef71e616b5645360cb6750fe4514e

(The easiest way to reproduce the original issue would be to add eglibc-utils to core-image-minimal before this change.)