1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index 936fe913b4..5c2f8f9d75 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -625,13 +625,14 @@ def check_sanity_version_change(status, d):
     # In other words, these tests run once in a given build directory and then 
     # never again until the sanity version or host distrubution id/version changes.
 
-    # Check the python install is complete. glib-2.0-natives requries
-    # xml.parsers.expat
+    # Check the python install is complete. Examples that are often removed in
+    # minimal installations: glib-2.0-natives requries # xml.parsers.expat and icu
+    # requires distutils.sysconfig.
     try:
         import xml.parsers.expat
-    except ImportError:
-        status.addresult('Your python is not a full install. Please install the module xml.parsers.expat (python-xml on openSUSE and SUSE Linux).\n')
-    import stat
+        import distutils.sysconfig
+    except ImportError as e:
+        status.addresult('Your Python 3 is not a full install. Please install the module %s (see the Getting Started guide for further information).\n' % e.name)
 
     status.addresult(check_make_version(d))
     status.addresult(check_patch_version(d))
@@ -667,6 +668,7 @@ def check_sanity_version_change(status, d):
         status.addresult('Please use ASSUME_PROVIDED +=, not ASSUME_PROVIDED = in your local.conf\n')
 
     # Check that TMPDIR isn't on a filesystem with limited filename length (eg. eCryptFS)
+    import stat
     tmpdir = d.getVar('TMPDIR')
     status.addresult(check_create_long_filename(tmpdir, "TMPDIR"))
     tmpdirmode = os.stat(tmpdir).st_mode