Yocto: oe_runmake failed, error in do_configure from bitbake image

Question

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

oe_runmake failed with do_configure and No rule for 'clean'

| make: *** No rule to make target 'clean'. Stop.

So I tried to make empty function 'do_clean' at "/opt/sanghun/meta-piflo/recipes-devtools/python/python-dateutil_1.5.bb" like shown figure below:

do_clean(){ }

but it doesn't work...

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

There is a make clean step in do_configure by default. Apparently the Makefile you are using misses that target. Just do this definition in your recipe:

CLEANBROKEN = "1"

This will skip the make clean step.

Links to the documentation:

• about do_configure: https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.4/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#ref-tasks-configure
• CLEANBROKEN variable: https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.4/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#var-CLEANBROKEN

BTW you can remove your empty do_clean - it is unrelated to the error you are seeing.