beeker23@ugly:~/YOCTO/build$ bitbake core-image-minimal
WARNING: Host distribution "debian-9" has not been validated with this version of the build system; you may possibly experience unexpected failures. It is recommended that you use a tested distribution.
Loading cache: 100% |##########################################################################################################################################################| Time: 0:00:00
Loaded 1324 entries from dependency cache.
Parsing recipes: 100% |########################################################################################################################################################| Time: 0:00:11
Parsing of 865 .bb files complete (854 cached, 11 parsed). 1334 targets, 79 skipped, 0 masked, 0 errors.
NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies

Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.33.2"
BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING   = "debian-9"
TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE           = "tinker-rk3288"
DISTRO            = "poky"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "2.2+snapshot-20170327"
TUNE_FEATURES     = "arm armv7ve vfp thumb neon callconvention-hard"
TARGET_FPU        = "hard"
meta              
meta-poky         
meta-yocto-bsp    = "master:f5187871ce03fc24cb0017cff1089a288f50a24f"
meta-rockchip     = "morty:bea3eebeba1e13323ed84c6faf2ad42e39d385f0"

NOTE: Fetching uninative binary shim from http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/uninative/1.5/x86_64-nativesdk-libc.tar.bz2;sha256sum=22f5a061d077379f5728197bfcc239aa087332293038df48535c7badcb6939fd
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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Initialising tasks: 100% |#####################################################################################################################################################| Time: 0:00:02
NOTE: Executing SetScene Tasks
NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
ERROR: quilt-native-0.65-r0 do_configure: Function failed: do_configure (log file is located at /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/log.do_configure.18881)
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/log.do_configure.18881
Log data follows:
| DEBUG: Executing shell function autotools_preconfigure
| DEBUG: Shell function autotools_preconfigure finished
| DEBUG: Executing python function autotools_aclocals
| DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'common-linux', 'common-glibc', 'bit-64', 'x86_64-linux', 'common']
| DEBUG: Python function autotools_aclocals finished
| DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
| /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/run.do_configure.18881: 1: /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/run.do_configure.18881: python3: Permission denied
| WARNING: exit code 127 from a shell command.
| ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (log file is located at /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/log.do_configure.18881)
ERROR: Task (/home/beeker23/YOCTO/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-native_0.65.bb:do_configure) failed with exit code '1'
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 19 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.

Summary: 1 task failed:
  /home/beeker23/YOCTO/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-native_0.65.bb:do_configure
Summary: There was 1 WARNING message shown.
Summary: There was 1 ERROR message shown, returning a non-zero exit code.
beeker23@ugly:~/YOCTO/build$ 



in the log file i found this:

beeker23@ugly:~/YOCTO/build$ cat /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/log.do_configure.18881
DEBUG: Executing shell function autotools_preconfigure
DEBUG: Shell function autotools_preconfigure finished
DEBUG: Executing python function autotools_aclocals
DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'common-linux', 'common-glibc', 'bit-64', 'x86_64-linux', 'common']
DEBUG: Python function autotools_aclocals finished
DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/run.do_configure.18881: 1: /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/run.do_configure.18881: python3: Permission denied
WARNING: exit code 127 from a shell command.
ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (log file is located at /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/temp/log.do_configure.18881)
beeker23@ugly:~/YOCTO/build$ 


the function in question looks like this:

oe_runconf() {
        # Use relative path to avoid buildpaths in files
        cfgscript_name="`basename /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/quilt-0.65/configure`"
             --mandir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/man                --disable-silent-rules                  --disable-dependency-tracking 
                   --disable-nls --disable-static ${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS} $@"
                if !  ac_cv_path_BASH=/bin/bash $cfgscript  --build=x86_64-linux                  --host=x86_64-linux             --target=x86_64-linux                   --prefix=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr 
                 --exec_prefix=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr             --bindir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin 
             --sbindir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/sbin            --libexecdir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/libexec 
             --datadir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share                   --sysconfdir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/etc 
             --sharedstatedir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/com                  --localstatedir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/var 
                  --libdir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib              --includedir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include 
             --oldincludedir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include                   --infodir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/info 
             --mandir=/home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/man                --disable-silent-rules                  --disable-dependency-tracking 
                   --disable-nls --disable-static ${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS} "$@"; then
                        bbnote "The following config.log files may provide further information."
                        bbnote `find /home/beeker23/YOCTO/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.65-r0/quilt-0.65 -ignore_readdir_race -type f -name config.log`
                        bbfatal_log "configure failed"
                fi
        else
                bbfatal "no configure script found at $cfgscript"
        fi
}