Yocto: oe_runmake failed, error in do_compile from bitbake image

Question

I'm building yocto image and a newbie for this. I'm having an error when I type bitbake piflo command (piflo is my image name) like shown figure below:

It says ERROR: batctl-2017.1-r0 do_compile: oe_runmake failed and also says pkg-config not found. from makefile.

I found some solutions from web and tried, but it gave me same error as figure above. It was building OK but after getting new batctl and batman-adv it fails building.

Does anybody have an idea for this? Please help me out here.

If needs more information or code, I will EDIT.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Sounds like a broken package. First things first, try cleaning it and rebuilding

bitbake -c cleanall batctl  
bitbake -c cleanall batman-adv  
bitbake batman-adv  
bitbake batctl

Also, do you actually need those packages? If not just remove them by adding to your local.conf

IMAGE_INSTALL_remove = " batctl batman-adv "

Answer 2

Yes, like you just found out, you need to add pkg-config to your recipe's DEPENDS.

In earlier OpenEmbedded (Yocto) it often worked out anyway, as some other recipe had pkg-config in its DEPENDS. However, from the Pyro release, each recipe gets it's own sysroot; thus, you have to explicitly add everything that the recipe needs to it's DEPENDS. This is done to improve determinism in the builds.