Error when attempting to build in yocto

[chrisfair]

I have a program I wanted to obfuscate in a yocto build. I got garble to compile without any difficulty and I got it into the build tools but whenever I try to build with it....I get

cannot get modified linker: exit status 1:
| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "/bluh/bluh/sources/openembedded-core/scripts/git", line 12, in
| path = os.environ['PATH']
| File "/usr/lib/python3.8/os.py", line 675, in getitem
| raise KeyError(key) from None
| KeyError: 'PATH'

When I check to see if I have a path variable set in the environment ... yep have one. I cannot get past this issue just thought I would run it by the community to see if anyone had any ideas.

[mvdan]

That appears to be some sort of Python error from running git; we rely on it to be able to run git apply to apply patches to the Go linker. Something appears broken with your git install.

[chrisfair]

Yeah unfortunately that is the nature of working with things within yocto. NOTHING works exactly as you would expect. That was kind of my read too, just figured I would ask in case there was something easy I could do. Somehow I have to resolve that in the git package of yocto....that may be beyond my ability to do :( but who knows, right? BTW...great project I love what it can do I hope I can get it to work in my particular application but I still love the project :)

[mvdan]

:) we want to remove this dependency on git, it's just not really possible right now. There is one package in Go which implements applying diffs, but only in "strict" mode, meaning that we'd have to ship patches for every Go bugfix release separately, as opposed to just one per major Go release. See bluekeyes/go-gitdiff#30.

[chrisfair]

I found a workaround in yocto, I think it is really a Yocto problem at present. Thanks for the discussion though it led me in the right direction to work around it.