I am trying to compile an apps. The compilation failed with this error below.
recipe-sysroot/usr/include/linux/stat.h:59:2: error: declaration does not declare anything [-fpermissive]
| 59 | __s32 __reserved;
This can be easily fixed by modifying __s32 __reserved into __s32 reserved in the stat.h file.
Now I want to make a "proper fix" of this C header file in sysroot. Note that I have figured that my stat.h file (and sysroots files in general) is a hardlink. Considering the last statements, is a patch the way to fix my issue? If so, how to patch a sysroot file?
Thank you
No, we can't patch sysroot.
However i let the original code an I just added the following in my .bb recipe:
TARGET_CFLAGS += " -fpermissive "
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I have a recipe in one of the meta layer. Its structure is given below:
meta-custom/swupdate/recipes-extended/images/recipe-name.bb
meta-custom layer is also included in the bblayers.conf. But when I run bitbake recipe-name I get the below error:
Bitbake error: Nothing PROVIDES for 'recipe-name'. Closes matches:
Can anyone please let me know what is the reason for this?
Thanks in advance!
Short answer: in your local.conf, add this:
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " recipe-name "
Be sure to include the spaces in " recipe-name ", otherwise you may run into errors where your recipe isn't separated from others, e.g. ERROR nothing provides "someOtherRecipeyourrecipe-name"
Long answer: Disregarding local.conf, within your own layer (if applicable), you may have a distro configuration file within conf/distro/distro.conf (or whatever you named it). This can act as your local.conf, and is more sought after for maintained yocto layers. Within that, you would add:
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " recipe-name "
just as you would in your local.conf
I am relatively new to the world of coding, so I am having trouble resolving an issue when running TranslocWrapper.pl tutorial_metadata.txt preprocess/ results/ --threads 2. I am trying to run the HTGTS Pipeline according to this GitHub project. This is the full error:
. Library Genome Chr Start End Strand
1 RAG1A_SRep2 hg19 chr11 36594878 36595030 -
Metadata error: chr must be valid at /home/micah/transloc_pipeline/bin/TranslocWrapper.pl line 285.
main::check_validity_of_metadata('HASH(0x2903ac8)') called at /home/micah/transloc_pipeline/bin/TranslocWrapper.pl line 248
main::read_in_meta_file() called at /home/micah/transloc_pipeline/bin/TranslocWrapper.pl line 90
I have already double-checked the successful installation of the Software Dependencies, so everything should be all good, but I am having trouble interpreting the "Metadata error: chr must be valid at ..." line. If it helps, these are the specific lines that are being called in the error:
TranslocWrapper.pl line 285:
croak "Metadata error: chr must be valid" unless grep { $_ eq $expt->{chr} } #chrlist;
TranslocWrapper.pl line 248:
check_validity_of_metadata($expt);
TranslocWrapper.pl line 90:
read_in_meta_file;
Thanks in advance for the help!
So the error is saying that one of the sequence characters in the metadata file is not present in the sequence's assembly file.
Given that this is the provided example you should assume that the data is correct and your invocation is faulty.
Have you done the TranslocPreprocess.pl preprocessing steps?
If you have try looking at the first line of the metadata file, identify the assembly entry. Ensure that the assembly file exists and that it contains the required sequence.
One common problem with this kind of code is the case of the filenames. The examples are designed to be run in Linux where filename case matters. Windows likes to pretend that case doesn't matter, this can cause problems. If you are running this code from Microsoft Windows or extracted any of the archives from within Windows this is a likely cause of the error.
In the book "Embedded Linux Systems with the Yocto Project", Chapter 4 contains a sample called "HelloWorld - BitBake style". I encountered a bunch of problems trying to get the old example working against the "Sumo" release 2.5.
If you're like me, the first error you encountered following the book's instructions was that you copied across bitbake.conf and got:
ERROR: ParseError at /tmp/bbhello/conf/bitbake.conf:749: Could not include required file conf/abi_version.conf
And after copying over abi_version.conf as well, you kept finding more and more cross-connected files that needed to be moved, and then some relative-path errors after that... Is there a better way?
Here's a series of steps which can allow you to bitbake nano based on the book's instructions.
Unless otherwise specified, these samples and instructions are all based on the online copy of the book's code-samples. While convenient for copy-pasting, the online resource is not totally consistent with the printed copy, and contains at least one extra bug.
Initial workspace setup
This guide assumes that you're working with Yocto release 2.5 ("sumo"), installed into /tmp/poky, and that the build environment will go into /tmp/bbhello. If you don't the Poky tools+libraries already, the easiest way is to clone it with:
$ git clone -b sumo git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git /tmp/poky
Then you can initialize the workspace with:
$ source /tmp/poky/oe-init-build-env /tmp/bbhello/
If you start a new terminal window, you'll need to repeat the previous command which will get get your shell environment set up again, but it should not replace any of the files created inside the workspace from the first time.
Wiring up the defaults
The oe-init-build-env script should have just created these files for you:
bbhello/conf/local.conf
bbhello/conf/templateconf.cfg
bbhello/conf/bblayers.conf
Keep these, they supersede some of the book-instructions, meaning that you should not create or have the files:
bbhello/classes/base.bbclass
bbhello/conf/bitbake.conf
Similarly, do not overwrite bbhello/conf/bblayers.conf with the book's sample. Instead, edit it to add a single line pointing to your own meta-hello folder, ex:
BBLAYERS ?= " \
${TOPDIR}/meta-hello \
/tmp/poky/meta \
/tmp/poky/meta-poky \
/tmp/poky/meta-yocto-bsp \
"
Creating the layer and recipe
Go ahead and create the following files from the book-samples:
meta-hello/conf/layer.conf
meta-hello/recipes-editor/nano/nano.bb
We'll edit these files gradually as we hit errors.
Can't find recipe error
The error:
ERROR: BBFILE_PATTERN_hello not defined
It is caused by the book-website's bbhello/meta-hello/conf/layer.conf being internally inconsistent. It uses the collection-name "hello" but on the next two lines uses _test suffixes. Just change them to _hello to match:
# Set layer search pattern and priority
BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "hello"
BBFILE_PATTERN_hello := "^${LAYERDIR}/"
BBFILE_PRIORITY_hello = "5"
Interestingly, this error is not present in the printed copy of the book.
No license error
The error:
ERROR: /tmp/bbhello/meta-hello/recipes-editor/nano/nano.bb: This recipe does not have the LICENSE field set (nano)
ERROR: Failed to parse recipe: /tmp/bbhello/meta-hello/recipes-editor/nano/nano.bb
Can be fixed by adding a license setting with one of the values that bitbake recognizes. In this case, add a line onto nano.bb of:
LICENSE="GPLv3"
Recipe parse error
ERROR: ExpansionError during parsing /tmp/bbhello/meta-hello/recipes-editor/nano/nano.bb
[...]
bb.data_smart.ExpansionError: Failure expanding variable PV_MAJOR, expression was ${#bb.data.getVar('PV',d,1).split('.')[0]} which triggered exception AttributeError: module 'bb.data' has no attribute 'getVar'
This is fixed by updating the special python commands being used in the recipe, because #bb.data was deprecated and is now removed. Instead, replace it with #d, ex:
PV_MAJOR = "${#d.getVar('PV',d,1).split('.')[0]}"
PV_MINOR = "${#d.getVar('PV',d,1).split('.')[1]}"
License checksum failure
ERROR: nano-2.2.6-r0 do_populate_lic: QA Issue: nano: Recipe file fetches files and does not have license file information (LIC_FILES_CHKSUM) [license-checksum]
This can be fixed by adding a directive to the recipe telling it what license-info-containing file to grab, and what checksum we expect it to have.
We can follow the way the recipe generates the SRC_URI, and modify it slightly to point at the COPYING file in the same web-directory. Add this line to nano.bb:
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "${SITE}/v${PV_MAJOR}.${PV_MINOR}/COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949"
The MD5 checksum in this case came from manually downloading and inspecting the matching file.
Done!
Now bitbake nano ought to work, and when it is complete you should see it built nano:
/tmp/bbhello $ find ./tmp/deploy/ -name "*nano*.rpm*"
./tmp/deploy/rpm/i586/nano-dbg-2.2.6-r0.i586.rpm
./tmp/deploy/rpm/i586/nano-dev-2.2.6-r0.i586.rpm
I have recently worked on that hands-on hello world project. As far as I am concerned, I think that the source code in the book contains some bugs. Below there is a list of suggested fixes:
Inheriting native class
In fact, when you build with bitbake that you got from poky, it builds only for the target, unless you mention in your recipe that you are building for the host machine (native). You can do the latter by adding this line at the end of your recipe:
inherit native
Adding license information
It is worth mentioning that the variable LICENSE is important to be set in any recipe, otherwise bitbake rises an error. In our case, we try to build the version 2.2.6 of the nano editor, its current license is GPLv3, hence it should be mentioned as follow:
LICENSE = "GPLv3"
Using os.system calls
As the book states, you cannot dereference metadata directly from a python function. Which means it is mandatory to access metadata through the d dictionary. Bellow, there is a suggestion for the do_unpack python function, you can use its concept to code the next tasks (do_configure, do_compile):
python do_unpack() {
workdir = d.getVar("WORKDIR", True)
dl_dir = d.getVar("DL_DIR", True)
p = d.getVar("P", True)
tarball_name = os.path.join(dl_dir, p+".tar.gz")
bb.plain("Unpacking tarball")
os.system("tar -x -C " + workdir + " -f " + tarball_name)
bb.plain("tarball unpacked successfully")
}
Launching the nano editor
After successfully building your nano editor package, you can find your nano executable in the following directory in case you are using Ubuntu (arch x86_64):
./tmp/work/x86_64-linux/nano/2.2.6-r0/src/nano
Should you have any comments or questions, Don't hesitate !
I've seen that I can use this command in order to copy a directory using cmake:
file(COPY "myDir" DESTINATION "myDestination")
(from this post)
My problem is that I don't want to copy all of myDir, but only the .h files that are in there. I've tried with
file(COPY "myDir/*.h" DESTINATION "myDestination")
but I obtain the following error:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:23 (file):
file COPY cannot find
"/full/path/to/myDIR/*.h".
How can I filter the files that I want to copy to a destination folder?
I've found the solution by myself:
file(GLOB MY_PUBLIC_HEADERS
"myDir/*.h"
)
file(COPY ${MY_PUBLIC_HEADERS} DESTINATION myDestination)
this also works for me:
install(DIRECTORY "myDir/"
DESTINATION "myDestination"
FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.h" )
The alternative approach provided by jepessen does not take into account the fact that sometimes the number of files to be copied is too high. I encountered the issue when doing such thing (more than 110 files)
Due to a limitation on Windows on the number of characters (2047 or 8191) in a single command line, this approach may randomly fail depending on the number of headers that are in the folder. More info here https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/830473/command-prompt-cmd-exe-command-line-string-limitation
Here is my solution:
file(GLOB MY_HEADERS myDir/*.h)
foreach(CurrentHeaderFile IN LISTS MY_HEADERS)
add_custom_command(
TARGET MyTarget PRE_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different ${CurrentHeaderFile} ${myDestination}
COMMENT "Copying header: ${CurrentHeaderFile}")
endforeach()
This works like a charm on MacOS. However, if you have another target that depends on MyTarget and needs to use these headers, you may have some compile errors due to not found includes on Windows. Therefore you may want to prefer the following option that defines an intermediate target.
function (CopyFile ORIGINAL_TARGET FILE_PATH COPY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY)
# Copy to the disk at build time so that when the header file changes, it is detected by the build system.
set(input ${FILE_PATH})
get_filename_component(file_name ${FILE_PATH} NAME)
set(output ${COPY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/${file_name})
set(copyTarget ${ORIGINAL_TARGET}-${file_name})
add_custom_target(${copyTarget} DEPENDS ${output})
add_dependencies(${ORIGINAL_TARGET} ${copyTarget})
add_custom_command(
DEPENDS ${input}
OUTPUT ${output}
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different ${input} ${output}
COMMENT "Copying file to ${output}."
)
endfunction ()
foreach(HeaderFile IN LISTS MY_HEADERS)
CopyFile(MyTarget ${HeaderFile} ${myDestination})
endforeach()
The downside indeed is that you end up with multiple target (one per copied file) but they should all end up together (alphabetically) since they start with the same prefix ORIGINAL_TARGET -> "MyTarget"
SharpDevelop compiles fine, but trying to compile through booc doesn't work.
Boo Compiler version 0.9.4.9 (CLR 2.0.50727.8000)
Program.boo(4,8): BCE0021: Namespace 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework' not found, maybe
you forgot to add an assembly reference?
booc -resource:"C:\test\" Program.boo , the command used in Windows cmd tool.
Thank you. Alisa.
Sharpdevelop most likely already references the libraries to the compiler for you. What that means is, when you manually invoke the booc command line compiler, you will have to tell the compiler where exactly the MonoGame library is. I haven't been able to check myself yet, but I did have a quick look at the command lines and the Boo source code, and I think you have to do the following:
-lib:C:/Path/To/MonoGame/Libraries
This will tell the compiler where to look for additional libraries.
The next thing you should then do is add the libraries you want, eg:
-r:Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll,Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.dll
Add these two additional compiler options to your command line and I think it should work.
I haven't compiled this myself really, because I found it rather tedious. Instead, I decided to create my own build script in Boo itself in order to compile my Boo programs. That way I still had to add the library path and reference the libraries, as in the following snippet:
def CompileEngine() as bool:
"""Compiles the engine and puts it in ./lib/SpectralEngine.dll"""
compiler = BooCompiler()
compiler.Parameters.Pipeline = CompileToFile()
compiler.Parameters.OutputType = CompilerOutputType.Library
compiler.Parameters.Ducky = true
compiler.Parameters.LibPaths.Add("./lib")
compiler.Parameters.OutputAssembly = "./lib/SpectralEngine.dll"
# Add libraries.
compiler.Parameters.References.Add(compiler.Parameters.LoadAssembly("OpenTK.dll"))
compiler.Parameters.References.Add(compiler.Parameters.LoadAssembly("NAudio.dll"))
compiler.Parameters.References.Add(compiler.Parameters.LoadAssembly("Boo.Lang.dll"))
compiler.Parameters.References.Add(compiler.Parameters.LoadAssembly("Boo.Lang.Parser.dll"))
compiler.Parameters.References.Add(compiler.Parameters.LoadAssembly("Boo.Lang.Compiler.dll"))
# Take all boo files from the Engine source directory.
files = (Directory.GetFiles(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + """/src/Engine""", "*.boo", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
.Where({file as string | return not file.Contains("Gwen")})) # Filter out old GWEN files.
for file in files:
print "Adding file: " + file
compiler.Parameters.Input.Add(FileInput(file))
print "Compiling to ./lib/SpectralEngine.dll"
context = compiler.Run()
if context.GeneratedAssembly is null:
print "Failed to compile:\n" + join(e for e in context.Errors, "\n")
return false
else:
return true
I've put two of these build scripts at here and here. It's perhaps a bit overkill for you, though.