Cannot configure alsa-utils on TI am335x

Question

I am currently trying to build an embedded linux image for TI AM335x using Yocto.

I downloaded the meta-ti layer from git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-ti and I am targeting the image image-core-base for the machine am335x-evm.

Unluckily I get an error during do_configure phase for recipe alsa-utils_1.0.28.bb:

ERROR: Task 2030 (/home/morix/devel/yocto/poky/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.0.28.bb, do_configure) failed with exit code '1'

Looking at the detailed log (that you can review here), I find the following error:

[...]
checking form.h presence... yes
checking for form.h... yes
checking for new_panel in -lpanelw... no
configure: error: panelw library not found
Configure failed. The contents of all config.log files follows to aid debugging
[...]

So the problem seems the lack of panelw... After some short investigations I discovered that panelw is provided by ncurses library and I checked that ncurses is included in the image... and it is! So, what's wrong?

Answer 1

This is solved by http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/80727/ that will get merged for 1.7.

You can also use a bpappend until then: (recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_5.9.bbappend)

do_configure_prepend() {
        # The --enable-pc-files requires PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR existed
        mkdir -p ${PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR}
}

Answer 2

I Had the same problem. This workaround worked for me:

bitbake alsa-tools -c cleansstate +

bitbake ncurses -c cleansstate +

bitbake alsa-tools +

bitbake myImage

Good luck.