To build agl-image-minimal image without any feature the bitbake setup script (meta-agl/scripts/aglsetup.sh) might be used as below :

$ source meta-agl/scripts/aglsetup.sh -m imx6qpsabresd -b build

No feature is specified here. Not enabling any "graphic" feature (like agl-demo) involves "graphic" meta (like meta-qt5) not being append to the bblayer.conf file.

BUT, according to the layer.conf file of meta-agl-bsp, many graphic recipes (meta-agl-bsp/meta-/recipes-graphic//*.bbappend) are still parsed. For instance:

    meta-agl-bsp/meta-freescale/recipes-graphic/qt/qt_base.bbappend
    meta-agl-bsp/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-graphic/wayland/weston-ini-conf.bbappend

It ends up some .bbappend files being parsed although their corresponding .bb file are missing. Bitbake command will abort.

Modifying the meta-agl-bsp layer.conf file to only parse recipes we need (removing recipes-graphics, recipes-qt, ...) can temporarily fix the issue. But bblayer's configuration should be handled automatically according to feature's choice.