Bug 11562 - poky-tiny: Error with "GNU gettext"when building core-image-tiny-initramfs
Summary: poky-tiny: Error with "GNU gettext"when building core-image-tiny-initramfs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Meta-yocto
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: meta-yocto (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ normal
Target Milestone: 2.4 M1
Assignee: Alejandro Hernandez
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Reported: 2017-05-22 19:51 UTC by Jose Perez C
Modified: 2017-05-30 17:07 UTC (History)
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Description Jose Perez C 2017-05-22 19:51:05 UTC 
Created attachment 3772 [details]
poky-tiny error

When building image core-image-tiny-initramfs an error related to gettext is appearing  when executing  do_configure for systemd-boot task. 

==== Steps ===

1. add to local.conf
   DISTRO = "poky-tiny"
   MACHINE = "intel-corei7-64"

2. bitbake-layers add-layer "../meta-intel"
3. bitbake core-image-tiny-initramfs

=== EXPECTED RESULT ===

Image should be built correctly 

=== ACTUAL RESULT ===

configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool
Comment 1 Alejandro Hernandez 2017-05-22 21:51:55 UTC 
This can be reproduced when setting DISTRO="poky-tiny" and invoking:

$ bitbake systemd-boot

it seems that the configure script from systemd-boot is not able to find gettext, even though invoking gettext from a devshell works just fine.

This is likely a dependency issue regarding systemd-boot or intltool.
Comment 2 Alejandro Hernandez 2017-05-22 21:59:28 UTC 
Its interesting that this appears to only be affecting poky-tiny:

TARGET_SYS        = "x86_64-poky-linux-musl"
MACHINE           = "intel-corei7-64"
DISTRO            = "poky-tiny"

| configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool

whereas:

TARGET_SYS        = "x86_64-poky-linux"
MACHINE           = "intel-corei7-64"
DISTRO            = "poky"

Succeeds with no issues.
Comment 3 Alejandro Hernandez 2017-05-22 22:08:44 UTC 
So I thought it might have been caused by using MUSL, but setting:

TCLIBC = "musl"

Shows no error either.
Comment 4 Alejandro Hernandez 2017-05-22 22:16:39 UTC 
Found it.

The problem is that on one case (DISTRO="poky") BASEDEPENDS has the following content:

BASEDEPENDS="virtual/x86_64-poky-linux-musl-gcc virtual/x86_64-poky-linux-musl-compilerlibs virtual/libc virtual/gettext gettext-native"

whereas when using DISTRO="poky-tiny" it contains:

BASEDEPENDS="virtual/x86_64-poky-linux-musl-gcc virtual/x86_64-poky-linux-musl-compilerlibs virtual/libc gettext-minimal-native"

So gettext-minimal-native appears not to be enought to build systemd-boot.

This is caused because on tiny we set:

USE_NLS="no"

Causing the gettext.bbclass to add gettext-minimal-native to BASEDEPENDS instead of gettext-native.


Setting gettext-native as a dependency to intltool-native fixes the problem.