I also manually set the tune_arch variable to be = "arm", now i get the above error plus some more like the following:
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-toradex/recipes/images/
qt4e-demo-image.bb seems to be empty?!                   | ETA:  00:00:49
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-toradex/recipes/images/
angstrom-qt-x11-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-toradex/recipes/images/
console-trdx-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-toradex/recipes/images/
angstrom-qt5-x11-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-toradex/recipes/images/
angstrom-lxde-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-openembedded/meta-initramfs/recipes-bsp/images/
initramfs-kexecboot-image.bb seems to be empty?!2
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-openembedded/meta-initramfs/recipes-bsp/images/
initramfs-kexecboot-klibc-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-openembedded/meta-initramfs/recipes-bsp/images/
initramfs-debug-image.bb seems to be empty?!00:56
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-ros/recipes-core/images/
core-image-ros-roscore.bb seems to be empty?!           | ETA:  00:00:42
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-ros/recipes-core/images/
core-image-ros-world.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-ros/recipes-core/images/
test-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-openembedded/meta-xfce/recipes-core/images/
core-image-minimal-xfce.bb seems to be empty?!0:00:35
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
systemd-gnome-image.bb seems to be empty?!     | ETA:  00:00:32
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
console-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
hardware-bringup-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
angstrom-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
development-gnome-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
xfce-nm-image.bb seems to be empty?!           | ETA:  00:00:31
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
efl-nodm-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
systemd-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
development-xfce-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/maker/
octoprint-image.bb seems to be empty?!
ERROR: Task do_rootfs_wicenv from /oe-core/build/../stuff/meta-angstrom/recipes-images/angstrom/
console-base-image.bb seems to be empty?!
NOTE: Error during finalise of /home/rama/repositories/meta-mender/meta-mender-core/recipes-mender/mender-artifact/
mender-artifact_2.0.0.bb    | ETA:  00:00:31
ERROR: ExpansionError during parsing /home/rama/repositories/meta-mender/meta-mender-core/recipes-mender/mender-artifact/
mender-artifact_2.0.0.bb: Failure expanding variable GOBIN_FINAL: SkipPackage: Unsupported CPU architecture: ${TUNE_ARCH}