Working through the Yocto docs and they all say “poky is for reference build your own distro.” I was able to get something working including only openembedded-core. I read somewhere though that meta-openembedded is a subset of that so I added meta-openembedded/oe-core and removed openembedded-core. Now bitbake-layers show-layers just hangs at NOTE: Starting bitbake server… Can anyone shed a little light on my situation please?

# Add the license file after unpacking the source do_unpack:append() { install -m 644 ${WORKDIR}/MNI.LIC ${S}/MNI.LIC || die “Failed to copy license file” } bitbake -p results in: …. ‘, ‘FILESPATH’, ‘PRSERV_DUMPDIR’, ‘PARALLEL_MAKE’, ‘STAGING_DIR_TARGET’, ‘BB_WORKERCONTEXT’, ‘SSTATE_DIR’, ‘LICENSE_PATH’, ‘PRSERV_LOCKDOWN’, ‘PRSERV_DUMPFILE’, ‘PWD’}, d=<bb.data_smart.DataSmart object at 0x7fcbfaefa050>): parser = bb.codeparser.PythonParser(key, logger) > parser.parse_python(value, filename=varflags.get(“filename”), lineno=varflags.get(“lineno”)) deps = deps […]

I was trying to build hello.bb for test.
In hello.bb, I wrote do_install like below

I’ve run bitbake to build my custom image with no error. But then have an error for running populate_sdk.
I’m using kirkstone branch for both poky and qt5 layers.

In bitbake.conf, I found the definition of BPN and PN.