sanity.bbclass: Warn people when TERMCMD is set to a non-installed program

We default to gnome-terminal for TERMCMD (and TERMRUNCMD) so should check that
this program actually exists during sanity checking.

As a corollary document how to change these variables in the local.conf

Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index 06aeddc3b0..e1f37ac1f4 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -139,6 +139,12 @@ def check_sanity(e):
                 missing = missing.rstrip(',')
                 messages = messages + "Please install following missing utilities: %s\n" % missing
 
+        # Ensure we have the binary for TERMCMD, as when patch application fails the error is fairly intimidating
+        termcmd = data.getVar("TERMCMD", e.data, True)
+        term = termcmd.split()[0]
+        if not check_app_exists(term, e.data):
+           messages = messages + "The console for use in patch error resolution is not available, please install %s or set TERMCMD and TERMCMDRUN (as documented in local.conf).\n" % term
+
         if os.path.basename(os.readlink('/bin/sh')) == 'dash':
                 messages = messages + "Using dash as /bin/sh causes various subtle build problems, please use bash instead (e.g. 'dpkg-reconfigure dash' on an Ubuntu system.\n"