构建基于Autoconf/Configure的Calcurse Yocto Recipe时配置报错求助

背景 #

接触Yocto构建系统仅一周，为练习编写Yocto Recipe，选择了calcurse的GitHub仓库。已能在x86_64主机通过以下步骤手动编译calcurse：

$ ./autogen
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

构建配置 #

Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION           = "2.8.0"
BUILD_SYS            = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING      = "universal"
TARGET_SYS           = "aarch64-poky-linux"
MACHINE              = "qemuarm64"
DISTRO               = "poky"
DISTRO_VERSION       = "5.0.6"
TUNE_FEATURES        = "aarch64 crc cortexa57"
TARGET_FPU           = ""
meta
meta-poky
meta-yocto-bsp       = "scarthgap:60b5842348f50ad44b6a64fc6201952bbbc46849"
meta-clang           = "scarthgap:9fbfa9db33131abdf3870a94f00199eb53e276e5"
meta-oe
meta-python          = "scarthgap:3c293e14492f01e22a64004e2330fb620c27578a"
meta-mylayer
workspace            = "scarthgap:60b5842348f50ad44b6a64fc6201952bbbc46849"

编写的Recipe（添加至meta-mylayer） #

LICENSE = "Unknown"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=547ff6a749ae78798e7a1ab1c9177b9d"

SRC_URI = "git://github.com/lfos/calcurse.git;protocol=https;branch=master"

PV = "1.0+git"
SRCREV = "95bb55f68b446e4461f27ef3a74a7d2eda950289"

S = "${WORKDIR}/git"

DEPENDS = "ncurses"
DEPENDS += "autoconf-archive-native"


inherit gettext autotools

# Specify any options you want to pass to the configure script using EXTRA_OECONF:
EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-ncursesw"

do_configure() {
    bbplain "WORKDIR=${WORKDIR}"
    bbplain "S=${S}"
    cd ${S}
    ${S}/autogen.sh
    ${S}/configure --host=${TARGET_SYS} --prefix=/usr
}

do_compile() {
    cd ${S}
    oe_runmake
}

do_install() {
    cd ${S}
    oe_runmake install DESTDIR=${D}
}

报错信息 #

执行bitbake calcurse-dev时出现如下错误：

| configure.ac:30: error: macro PKG_CHECK_EXISTS is not defined; is a m4 file missing?
| /mnt/secondary/poky/build/tmp/work/cortexa57-poky-linux/calcurse-dev/1.0+git/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/aclocal/ax_require_defined.m4:35: AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED is expanded from...
| /mnt/secondary/poky/build/tmp/work/cortexa57-poky-linux/calcurse-dev/1.0+git/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/aclocal/ax_with_curses.m4:197: _FIND_CURSES_FLAGS is expanded from...
| ../autoconf-2.72e/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
| /mnt/secondary/poky/build/tmp/work/cortexa57-poky-linux/calcurse-dev/1.0+git/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/aclocal/ax_with_curses.m4:250: AX_WITH_CURSES is expanded from...
| configure.ac:30: the top level
| autom4te: error: m4 failed with exit status: 1
| aclocal: error: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
| configure.ac: error: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
| configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
| configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
| configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal)
| configure.ac:15: installing './config.guess'
| configure.ac:15: installing './config.sub'
| Makefile.am:7: error: ENABLE_DOCS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
| doc/Makefile.am:3: error: HAVE_ASCIIDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
| doc/Makefile.am:10: error: HAVE_A2X does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
| doc/Makefile.am:61: error: HAVE_ASCIIDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
| doc/Makefile.am:66: error: HAVE_A2X does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
| src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'

解决方法 #

1. 补充缺失的依赖与m4宏支持 #

报错中的PKG_CHECK_EXISTS属于pkg-config相关宏，需添加pkgconfig-native依赖；同时要补充完整的autotools工具链，确保m4文件能被正确加载：

DEPENDS = "ncurses pkgconfig-native"
DEPENDS += "autoconf-archive-native automake-native libtool-native"

2. 利用autotools类的默认逻辑，删除自定义do_configure #

重写do_configure会跳过autotools类的环境初始化流程，导致宏路径、交叉编译环境变量未正确设置。添加AUTORECONF = "1"让系统自动执行autogen.sh，并通过EXTRA_OECONF传递配置参数，删除自定义的do_configure块：

AUTORECONF = "1"
EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-ncursesw"

3. 修正LICENSE字段 #

calcurse采用BSD-2-Clause许可证，替换原有的Unknown：

LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"

4. 禁用文档构建（可选） #

报错里的HAVE_ASCIIDOC等错误源于文档构建依赖，若不需要生成文档，可在EXTRA_OECONF中添加禁用选项：

EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-ncursesw --disable-docs"

最终修正后的Recipe #

LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=547ff6a749ae78798e7a1ab1c9177b9d"

SRC_URI = "git://github.com/lfos/calcurse.git;protocol=https;branch=master"

PV = "1.0+git"
SRCREV = "95bb55f68b446e4461f27ef3a74a7d2eda950289"

S = "${WORKDIR}/git"

DEPENDS = "ncurses pkgconfig-native"
DEPENDS += "autoconf-archive-native automake-native libtool-native"

inherit gettext autotools

AUTORECONF = "1"
EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-ncursesw --disable-docs"

# 若无特殊需求，可删除自定义的do_compile和do_install，使用autotools类默认逻辑

验证 #

重新执行bitbake calcurse-dev，即可完成configure阶段并继续后续构建流程。

内容的提问来源于stack exchange，提问作者InsaneCoder