ParseError after adding meta-oe layer Could not inherit file classes/autotools_stage.bbclass?

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UPDATE: The following is are the branches of each layer

rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky$ cd meta-qt4/
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-qt4$ git checkout pyro
Already on 'pyro'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/pyro'.
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-qt4$ cd ..
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky$ cd meta-virtualization/
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-virtualization$ git checkout pyro
Already on 'pyro'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/pyro'.
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-virtualization$ cd ..
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky$ cd oe-meta-go/
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/oe-meta-go$ git checkout pyro
error: pathspec 'pyro' did not match any file(s) known to git.
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/oe-meta-go$ cd ..
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky$ cd meta-toradex/
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-toradex$ git checkout pyro
M   meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf
Already on 'pyro'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/pyro'.
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-toradex$ cd ..
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky$ cd meta-openembedded/
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded$ git checkout pyro
M   meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf
Already on 'pyro'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/pyro'.
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded$ cd ..
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky$ cd meta-freescale
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-freescale$ git checkout pyro
Already on 'pyro'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/pyro'.
rama@RR06:~/repositories/poky/meta-freescale$

I am trying to add a layer called meta virtualization, it is dependent on some layers of meta-openembedded such as meta-oe. One I add these necessary layers I get the following error while bitbaking:

NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/vim/vim_7.4.769.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.               | ETA:  0:00:26
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/vim/vim_7.4.769.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_7.4.769.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_7.4.769.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_7.4.769.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_7.4.769.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/vim/vim_7.4.769.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/vim/vim_7.4.769.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks2_2.1.5.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.          | ETA:  0:00:26
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks2_2.1.5.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks_1.0.5.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks_1.0.5.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks2_2.1.5.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.

and this:

ERROR: ParseError at /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/scsirastools/scsirastools_1.6.4.bb:17: Could not inherit file classes/autotools_stage.bbclass

I dont even see the build configuration output. I checked this out and found out that autotools_stage.bbclass had been removed from the file scsirastools_1.6.4.bb in the latest version and said that this can be removed csince not used, I went ahead and did that and got the following errors:

NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/ypbind-mt_1.38.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
ERROR: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/ypbind-mt_1.38.bb: Error executing a python function in <code>:

The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
File: '<code>', lineno: 18, function: <module>
     0014:__anon_35__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_devshell_bbclass(d)
     0015:__anon_101__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_sstate_bbclass(d)
     0016:__anon_20__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_blacklist_bbclass(d)
     0017:__anon_160__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_siteinfo_bbclass(d)
 *** 0018:__anon_31__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_openembedded_meta_networking_recipes_support_nis_nis_inc(d)
     0019:__anon_23__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_systemd_bbclass(d)
     0020:__anon_81__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_update_rc_d_bbclass(d)
File: '/home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/nis.inc', lineno: 29, function: __anon_31__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_openembedded_meta_networking_recipes_support_nis_nis_inc
     0025:# so force the package to be skipped here (this will cause a
     0026:# 'nothing provides' error)
     0027:python () {
     0028:    os = bb.data.getVar("TARGET_OS", d, 1)
 *** 0029:    if os == "linux-uclibc":
     0030:        raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("NIS functionality requires rpcsvc/yp.h, uClibC does not provide this")
     0031:}
Exception: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getVar'

NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/openvpn/openvpn_2.3.7.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/ypbind-mt_2.2.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
ERROR: Failed to parse recipe: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/ypbind-mt_1.38.bb
ERROR: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/yp-tools_2.14.bb: Error executing a python function in <code>:

The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
File: '<code>', lineno: 18, function: <module>
     0014:__anon_35__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_devshell_bbclass(d)
     0015:__anon_101__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_sstate_bbclass(d)
     0016:__anon_20__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_blacklist_bbclass(d)
     0017:__anon_160__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_siteinfo_bbclass(d)
 *** 0018:__anon_31__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_openembedded_meta_networking_recipes_support_nis_nis_inc(d)
     0019:__anon_23__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_classes_systemd_bbclass(d)
File: '/home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/nis/nis.inc', lineno: 29, function: __anon_31__home_rama_repositories_poky_meta_openembedded_meta_networking_recipes_support_nis_nis_inc
     0025:# so force the package to be skipped here (this will cause a
     0026:# 'nothing provides' error)
     0027:python () {
     0028:    os = bb.data.getVar("TARGET_OS", d, 1)
 *** 0029:    if os == "linux-uclibc":
     0030:        raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("NIS functionality requires rpcsvc/yp.h, uClibC does not provide this")
     0031:}
Exception: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getVar'

NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/openvpn/openvpn_2.3.7.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.
NOTE: /home/rama/repositories/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcf/netcf_git.bb: base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead.

Is it some other deprecated file calling this old supposedly non-existant file? As I said I just cloned everything recently. So I put it back again. I just cloned the repos yeaterday, and except for oe-meta-go which is on master, all other branches are on pyro branch.

My setup is poky on pyro branch on Ubuntu 14.04.

Anders Anders · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-14T11:47:36

Again, which versions of all your layers are you using? You need to use the corresponding verions / branches in all your layers.

The initial warnings base_contains is deprecated, please use bb.utils.contains instead. indicates that you have a recent (not too old) bitbake and oe-core.

However, the scsirastools did inherit autotools_stage in jethro; while this line was removed in krogoth (relased spring 2016). See meta-oe/scsirastools_1.6.4.bb to verify that it's not inheriting that class in pyro.

For the other error, the is no openvpn_2.3.7.bb in meta-networking in the pyro branch, see meta-networking / openvpn to verify that.

In the case of ypbind-mt, in the included file nis.inc, there's no line:

os = bb.data.getVar("TARGET_OS", d, 1)

in the pyro branch. That line is instead:

os = d.getVar("TARGET_OS", True)

All of the findings above, tells us that you're mixing branches.

Thus, if you ensure that you have the same versions / branches of all your layers, you will have a lot less problems.

Mixing versions / branches is not supported, and you're left on your own. (I.e. this is only for people who knows what they're doing).

ParseError after adding meta-oe layer Could not inherit file classes/autotools_stage.bbclass?

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