* bblayers.conf is required?
@ 2012-04-09 13:03 Gary Thomas
2012-04-09 18:07 ` Khem Raj
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gary Thomas @ 2012-04-09 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bitbake-devel
The config file conf/bblayers.conf seems to be required:
$ bitbake core-image-minimal
Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf
BitBake must be run from within your build directory: /home/local/p60_poky
but the bitbake documentation says otherwise:
<para>BitBake will first search the current working directory for an optional "conf/bblayers.conf" configuration file. This file is expected to contain a BBLAYERS
variable which is a space delimited list of 'layer' directories. For each directory in this list, a "conf/layer.conf" file will be searched for and parsed with the LAYERDIR
variable being set to the directory where the layer was found. The idea is these files will setup BBPATH and other variables correctly for a given build directory automatically for
the user.</para>
Maybe the documentation should just read "required" instead of "optional"?
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2012-04-09 13:03 bblayers.conf is required? Gary Thomas
@ 2012-04-09 18:07 ` Khem Raj
2012-04-10 16:09 ` Jeremy Puhlman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Khem Raj @ 2012-04-09 18:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gary Thomas; +Cc: bitbake-devel
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> The config file conf/bblayers.conf seems to be required:
> $ bitbake core-image-minimal
> Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf
> BitBake must be run from within your build directory: /home/local/p60_poky
>
> but the bitbake documentation says otherwise:
> <para>BitBake will first search the current working directory
> for an optional "conf/bblayers.conf" configuration file. This file is
> expected to contain a BBLAYERS variable which is a space delimited list of
> 'layer' directories. For each directory in this list, a "conf/layer.conf"
> file will be searched for and parsed with the LAYERDIR variable being set to
> the directory where the layer was found. The idea is these files will setup
> BBPATH and other variables correctly for a given build directory
> automatically for the user.</para>
>
> Maybe the documentation should just read "required" instead of "optional"?
I think yes. Next action is a patch or bug report.
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* Re: bblayers.conf is required?
2012-04-09 18:07 ` Khem Raj
@ 2012-04-10 16:09 ` Jeremy Puhlman
2012-04-10 16:31 ` Chris Larson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Puhlman @ 2012-04-10 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Khem Raj; +Cc: bitbake-devel
On 4/9/2012 11:07 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> The config file conf/bblayers.conf seems to be required:
>> $ bitbake core-image-minimal
>> Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf
>> BitBake must be run from within your build directory: /home/local/p60_poky
>>
>> but the bitbake documentation says otherwise:
>> <para>BitBake will first search the current working directory
>> for an optional "conf/bblayers.conf" configuration file. This file is
>> expected to contain a BBLAYERS variable which is a space delimited list of
>> 'layer' directories. For each directory in this list, a "conf/layer.conf"
>> file will be searched for and parsed with the LAYERDIR variable being set to
>> the directory where the layer was found. The idea is these files will setup
>> BBPATH and other variables correctly for a given build directory
>> automatically for the user.</para>
>>
>> Maybe the documentation should just read "required" instead of "optional"?
>
> I think yes. Next action is a patch or bug report.
Hmmm you used to be able to run bitbake by just setting the BBPATH
variable in the environment, and not need a bblayers file. It is not the
suggested use case anymore, but looking at cooker I don't see anything
in there in the layer handling code that would preclude that use.
Also that final error message comes from the content bitbake script not
bitbake proper.
--
Jeremy Puhlman
Montavista Software, LLC.
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* Re: bblayers.conf is required?
2012-04-10 16:09 ` Jeremy Puhlman
@ 2012-04-10 16:31 ` Chris Larson
2012-04-10 16:54 ` Khem Raj
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Chris Larson @ 2012-04-10 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeremy Puhlman; +Cc: bitbake-devel
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Jeremy Puhlman <jpuhlman@mvista.com> wrote:
> On 4/9/2012 11:07 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>> The config file conf/bblayers.conf seems to be required:
>>> $ bitbake core-image-minimal
>>> Unable to find conf/bblayers.conf
>>> BitBake must be run from within your build directory: /home/local/p60_poky
>>>
>>> but the bitbake documentation says otherwise:
>>> <para>BitBake will first search the current working directory
>>> for an optional "conf/bblayers.conf" configuration file. This file is
>>> expected to contain a BBLAYERS variable which is a space delimited list of
>>> 'layer' directories. For each directory in this list, a "conf/layer.conf"
>>> file will be searched for and parsed with the LAYERDIR variable being set to
>>> the directory where the layer was found. The idea is these files will setup
>>> BBPATH and other variables correctly for a given build directory
>>> automatically for the user.</para>
>>>
>>> Maybe the documentation should just read "required" instead of "optional"?
>>
>> I think yes. Next action is a patch or bug report.
>
> Hmmm you used to be able to run bitbake by just setting the BBPATH
> variable in the environment, and not need a bblayers file. It is not the
> suggested use case anymore, but looking at cooker I don't see anything
> in there in the layer handling code that would preclude that use.
>
> Also that final error message comes from the content bitbake script not
> bitbake proper.
Yeah, bitbake itself doesn't require bblayers.conf. If we *were* to
make the layer mechanism required by bitbake, then I'd say we should
implement it properly, rather than being a light convenience wrapper
around the use of BBPATH/BBFILES.
--
Christopher Larson
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