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Anurag Raghavan
Anurag Raghavan

Reputation: 19

How to use a latest package version in a Yocto -older version?

I am using the following Yocto version,

DISTRO = "poky"
DISTRO_NAME = "Poky 8.0.1 (Yocto Project 1.3.1 Reference Distro)"
DISTRO_VERSION = "1.3.1"
SDK_VENDOR = "-pokysdk"

I want to upgrade the following packages.

  1. Currently using package apt_0.7.14 and nee to upgrade to the latest version (say apt_1.2.12).
  2. Currently using package eglibc-2.16 and nee to upgrade to the latest version. I think latest Yocto versions using glibc instead of eglibc.

I tried the following steps,

  1. Copied the apt recipes Yocto-2.3\poky-pyro-17.0.0\meta\recipes-devtools/apt to my work space.
  2. Initiated bitbake.
  3. But I am getting some do_configure error given below,
> checking for strings.h... (cached) yes checking for inttypes.h...
> (cached) yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking for
> unistd.h... (cached) yes checking db.h usability... yes checking db.h
> presence... yes checking for db.h... yes checking if we can link
> against BerkeleyDB... yes checking for curl_easy_init in -lcurl... no
> configure: error: failed: I need CURL due https support Configure
> failed. The contents of all config.log files follows to aid debugging
> /home/ebike/work/STREAMS/Int_275/main/Yocto_Git/build/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/apt-1.2.12-r0/apt-1.2.12/config.log
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running
> configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> It was created by configure, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.
> Invocation command line was
> 
>   $
> /home/ebike/work/STREAMS/Int_275/main/Yocto_Git/build/tmp/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/apt-1.2.12-r0/apt-1.2.12/configure
> --build=i686-linux --host=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr --exec_prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --sharedstatedir=/com --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/usr/include --oldincludedir=/usr/include --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --disable-silent-rules --disable-dependency-tracking --with-libtool-sysroot=/home/ebike/work/STREAMS/Int_275/main/Yocto_Git/build/tmp/sysroots/imx6qsabrelite
> --enable-nls ac_cv_lib_lzma_lzma_easy_encoder=yes ac_cv_lib_bz2_BZ2_bzopen=no
> ac_cv_lib_lz4_LZ4F_createCompressionContext=no

It will be much appreciated, if anyone can help to solve this issue.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2984

Answers (1)

Richard Purdie
Richard Purdie

Reputation: 2368

The trouble is that versions have a ripple effect in the system. The error you're seeing here likely amounts to "apt needs a newer version of curl than the one you have available". You could try upgrading curl as well however this kind of thing has a tendency to escalate. You will likely find software than needs newer gcc or kernel versions too.

Upvotes: -1

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