terminal.py: Pass string instead of bytes to ExecutionError to avoid exception

Based on run() in bitbake/lib/bb/process.py, ExecutionError() expects strings
not bytes. Passing bytes results in a "TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object
to str implicitly" exception.

Fixes Bug 10729

(From OE-Core rev: 063b63d4d324c23322ac1b6b7c7928e725d7b968)

Signed-off-by: Martin Vuille <jpmv27@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/terminal.py b/meta/lib/oe/terminal.py
index 38e66cef1f..a89fa45691 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/terminal.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/terminal.py
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ def spawn(name, sh_cmd, title=None, env=None, d=None):
 
     pipe = terminal(sh_cmd, title, env, d)
     output = pipe.communicate()[0]
+    if output:
+        output = output.decode("utf-8")
     if pipe.returncode != 0:
         raise ExecutionError(sh_cmd, pipe.returncode, output)