Re: [yocto] undefined reference problem persists

[Ron Eggler <ron.eggler@mistywest.com>]

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Hi,

On 11/6/22 08:48, Anders Montonen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On 6 Nov 2022, at 18:02, Mistyron <ron.eggler@mistywest.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/6/22 02:26, Anders Montonen wrote:
>>> On 6 Nov 2022, at 9:45, Mistyron <ron.eggler@mistywest.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm working with dunfell and want to compile and install the 
>>>> drivers for the Laird LWB5+ module (available from 
>>>> https://github.com/LairdCP/meta-laird-cp).
>>>> I have included the path to the layer in meta-laird-cp-pre-3.4 in 
>>>> my `bblayers.conf` and since I need the networkmanager and with 
>>>> information from their support team (don't trust the README 
>>>> apparently), I've added `lrd-networkmanager-sterling` to the 
>>>> `IMAGE_INSTALL` list in `sample-image-cp-lwb5plus.bb`. When I 
>>>> invoke `$ bitbake sample-image-cp-lwb5plus`, I keep getting:
>>>>
>>>>     | 
>>>> /usr/src/debug/lrd-networkmanager-sterling/10.4.0.10-r0/build/../lrd-network-manager-10.4.0.10/src/nmcli/common.c:904: 
>>>> undefined reference to `rl_echo_signal_char'
>>>>
>>>> even though I've added `readline` to the `DEPENDS` list. Why is 
>>>> this? I expected the `rl_echo_signal_char` dependency to be 
>>>> resolved, any hints?
>>> Are you using meta-gplv2? That function doesn’t exist yet in the 
>>> version of readline provided by that layer.
>>
>> I see, yes my project is using "meta-gplv2".
>>
>> Should removal of that layer help, or would you recommend that I 
>> update the readline version within it to the latest? (and provide an 
>> upstream patch to:https://github.com/lgirdk/meta-gplv2?
>
> If your project doesn’t have any special requirements about not using 
> (L)GPLv3-licensed packages, then dropping meta-gplv2 is by far the 
> best option.
I'll attempt to "just drop" meta-gplv2, then. However I see that there 
are other dependencies on readline too, i.e. it might be easier to just 
replace the existing 5.2 version in meta-gplv2 with 8.2 from here: 
https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/plain/meta/recipes-core/readline/
> The dependency on readline comes from Networkmanager’s user interfaces 
> (nmcli, nmtui). If you can live without them, disabling them is also 
> an alternative.

I need nmcli for configuration purposes, disabling it won't work for me.

Thanks,
Ron

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