Re: trouble using a local kernel repo

[Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard@mentor.com>]

On 02/16/2012 01:22 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Hollis Blanchard
> <hollis_blanchard@mentor.com>  wrote:
>> I'm trying to figure out how to use a cloned/modified copy of the
>> linux-yocto-3.0 git repository. Here's what I did:
>>
>> * cloned linux-yocto-3.0.git and committed to the meta branch
>> * specified my new repo:
>>
>> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.0.bb
>> @@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ SRCREV_machine_qemuppc ?=
>> "15fd748017f0849138ff4b47d73f6866fa26cfe8"
>>   SRCREV_machine_qemux86 ?= "8f74a4339b3dc029fafff0ba7d88d6dc950d4b31"
>>   SRCREV_machine_qemux86-64 ?= "610c5a62daeda033755b0b7bfcb3e2cad5c76f3f"
>>   SRCREV_machine ?= "5df0b4c2538399aed543133b3855f809adf08ab8"
>> -SRCREV_meta ?= "b78a519841bd8b477cad599af8d38df6760445c1"
>> +SRCREV_meta ?= "7af8d6f8769335b79c1b76c8bded256b8f909c74"
>>
>>   PR = "r3"
>>   PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
>>
>> -SRC_URI =
>> "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.0;protocol=git;nocheckout=1;branch=${KBRANCH},meta
>> +SRC_URI =
>> "git:///mnt/linux-yocto-3.0.git;protocol=file;nocheckout=1;branch=${KBRANCH},meta;name=machi
>>
>>   COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(qemuarm|qemux86|qemuppc|qemumips|qemux86-64)"
>>
>> * bitbake -c clean virtual/kernel&&    bitbake virtual/kernel
>>
>>
>> What I get is this:
>> ERROR: Function failed: do_validate_branches (see
>> /mnt/poky.git/build/tmp/work/beagleboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/linux-yocto-3.0.18+git2+7af8d6f8769335b79c1b76c8bded256b8f909c74_1+368e38c673ffac8b37fc2a2d4c1e4a1e6f8abf19-r3/temp/log.do_validate_branches.5342
>> for further information)
>>
>> There is no more information in that file. It contains only the exact
>> message I already got on the console ("ERROR: Function failed ...").
>>
>> What am I missing?
>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/kernel-manual/kernel-manual.html
>> was not helpful.
> Not much help but you can look in:
>
> meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass:do_validate_branches() {
>
> And try to figure out which step could return an error code to the shell.
Yeah, I've looked through there, but where should stdout (i.e. those 
echo commands) be appearing?

Hollis Blanchard
Mentor Graphics, Embedded Systems Division