What is the error "msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for data/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy.in" while building yocto wpa repo

Question

I am trying to build the meta layer https://github.com/LairdCP/meta-laird-cp I am using the layer meta-summit-radio-pre-3.4/ for my build. Most of the components build with the exception of 'summit-networkmanager-lwb'. This component creates the error:

summit-networkmanager-lwb/11.39.0.18-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for data/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy.in
make[2]: *** [Makefile:21455: data/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy] Error 1

I tried installing libappstream-glib-dev. It didn't work.

Whats going on here? How do I debug this?

Answer 1

You need to use Ubuntu 18.04 or later as the host