Building GPDS for Yocto Dunfell embedded system?

[Mike Tubby]

    All,
    
    Does anyone have experience of GPSD on Yocto embedded systems?
    
    We are trying to build GPSD 3.23 for a Yocto Dunfell system that
    previously had GPSD 3.19 as part of its system.
    
    We can get gpsd is compiled okay, but is not part of the generated
    filesystem.
    
    In bitbake (used by Yocto) there are many stages of building a
    package.
    
    http://www.embeddedlinux.org.cn/OEManual/usage_workwithsinglerecipe.html
    
    "fetch", "unpack", "patch", "configure", and "compile" all work:
    
      13:56 chris@bender ~/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/build
      (dunfell) $ bitbake -b gpsd_3.23 -f -c compile
      WARNING: Buildfile specified, dependencies will not be handled. If
      this is not what you want, do not use -b / --buildfile.
      Loading cache: 100%
|###################################################################################################################################|
      Time: 0:00:00
      Loaded 4324 entries from dependency cache.
      NOTE: Tainting hash to force rebuild of task
/raid/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/meta-simoco/recipes/gpsd/gpsd_3.23.bb,
      do_compile
      ...
      NOTE: Tainting hash to force rebuild of task
/raid/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/meta-simoco/recipes/gpsd/gpsd_3.23.bb,
      do_compile                    | ETA:  0:00:00
      WARNING:
/raid/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/meta-simoco/recipes/gpsd/gpsd_3.23.bb:do_patch
      is tainted from a forced run                              | ETA: 
      0:00:00
      WARNING:
/raid/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/meta-simoco/recipes/gpsd/gpsd_3.23.bb:do_configure
      is tainted from a forced run
      WARNING:
/raid/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/meta-simoco/recipes/gpsd/gpsd_3.23.bb:do_compile
      is tainted from a forced run
      Initialising tasks: 100%
|##############################################################################################################################|
      Time: 0:00:00
      Sstate summary: Wanted 0 Found 0 Missed 0 Current 1 (0% match,
      100% complete)
      NOTE: Executing Tasks
      NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 7 tasks of which 6 didn't need to
      be rerun and all succeeded.
      NOTE: Writing buildhistory
      NOTE: Writing buildhistory took: 1 seconds
      
      Summary: There were 4 WARNING messages shown.
    
    "stage" fails:
    
      13:57 chris@bender ~/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/build
      (dunfell) $ bitbake -b gpsd_3.23 -f -c stage
      WARNING: Buildfile specified, dependencies will not be handled. If
      this is not what you want, do not use -b / --buildfile.
      Loading cache: 100%
|###################################################################################################################################|
      Time: 0:00:00
      Loaded 4324 entries from dependency cache.
      NOTE: Tainting hash to force rebuild of task
/raid/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/meta-simoco/recipes/gpsd/gpsd_3.23.bb,
      do_stage
      ...
      ERROR: Task do_stage does not exist for target gpsd
(/raid/var-fslc-yocto/sources/AppBoard/meta-simoco/recipes/gpsd/gpsd_3.23.bb:do_stage)             
        | ETA:  0:00:00
      ERROR: Command execution failed: 1
      
      Summary: There was 1 WARNING message shown.
      Summary: There were 2 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero
      exit code.
      
      
    Anyone got any hints or clues?
    
    
    Mike