wic in yocto

As of the time of writing the manual of wic in the the Yocto Mega manual has a massive omission. It only explains how to use wic individually and does not talk about the IMAGE_FSTYPES = "wic". Because of this if you ran wic create you will get strange errors like.

Please make sure wic-tools have %s-native in its DEPENDS, bake it with 'bitbake wic-tools'

This message will not appear if you set IMAGE_FSTYPES = "wic", because the IMAGE_DEPENDS_wic already contains the above dependencies.

Also with the IMAGE_DEPENDS_wic_append_${MACHINE} you can deploy boot packages which wic could required to create the images.

PS: I hate blogger interface.

Edit: While grepping my poky I found that the included documentation refers to exactly what I wrote above. Well may be some googler will find it useful.

Nice trick to diagnose gcc search paths

Recently I needed to use a compiler as part of an sdk and needed to point it to the correct sysroot. For some reason the --sysroot flag did not work correctly. To inspect what was going on in gcc 'mind' a colleague told me about a "trick":

gcc -o  ./g.c -E  -P  -v -dD