[yocto] Still having build problems - what version of python is required?

[Gary Thomas]

On 12/02/2010 11:54 AM, Tim Bird wrote:
> So I gave up, for the time being, trying to build behind
> my firewall.
>
> I tried to set up a machine outside my firewall to do a build.
> Unfortunately, this machine is a bit dated.  It is running
> Fedora 8, with python version 2.5.1.

You need at least 2.6

> Here's what I get when I run bitbake:
>
> [tbird at tree poky-4.0-build]$ bitbake poky-image-minimal
>    File "/a/home/tbird/work/yocto/poky-laverne-4.0/scripts/..//bitbake//bin/bitbake", line 207
>      except Exception as e:
>                        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> [tbird at tree poky-4.0-build]$ python --version
> Python 2.5.1
> [tbird at tree poky-4.0-build]$ cat /etc/issue
> Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)1
>
> What version of python is required?
>
> Note also that I couldn't find a prce package for this distro, despite
> there being an prce-devel page available.  I don't know how important
> that will be for building stuff.
>
> Is it a dead end trying to get a host distro this old to build
> poky?

Probably yes.  Can't you upgrade?  Fedora 8 is really old now...

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