From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TvSkT-0001gS-JC for bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:10:00 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r0GCsJSW024191; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:54:19 GMT Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23524-04; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:54:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r0GCs9Nu024185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:54:11 GMT Message-ID: <1358340849.12628.0.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Andrew Stubbs Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:54:09 +0000 In-Reply-To: <50F41A7D.7080108@codesourcery.com> References: <50F4106E.8070404@codesourcery.com> <50F41A7D.7080108@codesourcery.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Cc: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: Minimal BitBake template X-BeenThere: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:10:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 14:47 +0000, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > On 14/01/13 14:23, Bill Traynor wrote: > > This doesn't answer your problem directy, and you may have seen this > > tutorial already, but in case not: > > > > http://hambedded.org/blog/2012/11/24/from-bitbake-hello-world-to-an-image/ > > > > Note that I'm including a hello world example in the new BitBake User > > Manual I'm working on. > > Thanks! That's a very useful resource. :) > > It's surprisingly hard to find BitBake tutorials that do not assume that > one is trying to insert something into OE. I wish I'd found this sooner. > > The other think I wish I'd found sooner, that you page references, are > the example conf and bbclass files inside the bitbake sources. I had > assumed they were some sort of internal detail, and not for the likes of me. > > Apparently my base.bbclass and hello.bb files are absolutely fine, but > something, as yet unidentified, in the bitbake.conf from the sources has > fixed my problem. At a guess, did you set the STAMP variable? We could certainly make bitbake give less obtuse errors if some of the key variables aren't set. Its not been a priority since people don't do that very often though... Cheers, Richard