Bug 15591 - layer paths referenced via symlinks confuse bitbake
Summary: layer paths referenced via symlinks confuse bitbake
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: BitBake
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: bitbake (show other bugs)
Version: 0.0.0
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ normal
Target Milestone: 6.2 M2
Assignee: Richard Purdie
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Reported: 2024-09-09 22:01 UTC by Richard Purdie
Modified: 2026-10-01 15:47 UTC (History)
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Description Richard Purdie 2024-09-09 22:01:56 UTC 
Consider this failure:

https://valkyrie.yoctoproject.org/#/builders/7/builds/121

NOTE: Starting bitbake server...
ERROR: Found duplicated BBFILE_COLLECTIONS 'meta-mingw', check bblayers.conf or layer.conf to fix it.
ERROR: Parse failure with the specified layer added, exiting.

where bblayers.conf has:

BBLAYERS ?= " \
  /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-mingw/build/meta \
  /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-mingw/build/meta-poky \
  /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-mingw/build/meta-yocto-bsp \
  /home/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-mingw/build/meta-mingw \
  "

and /home/pokybuild is a symlink to /srv/pokybuild

We need to fix bitbake so an add-layers on /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-mingw/build/meta-mingw doesn't fail