[yocto] Older versions of Linux as build hosts?

[Mark Hatle]

On 3/22/11 12:01 PM, Jeremy Puhlman wrote:
> On 3/22/2011 9:48 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> On 3/22/11 11:40 AM, Matt Madison wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>> I have done builds with both RHEL 4 and RHEL 5.  Both on machines in which I do
>> not have root access.
>>
>> For me I was able to simply provide an update python, some additional tools and
>> it worked.  (Note, I haven't tried it in the last 2 months though, so something
>> may have broken since then.)
> 
> I have noticed of late, pseudo's definition of clone conflicts with my
> RHEL 4's definition of clone. Aside
> from that I haven't noticed any significant issues.

semantics of clone changed between RHEL 4 and RHEL 5.  :(

The newer version of pseudo (upstream, not yet in Poky) fixes this issue.

It's still in development, so I wouldn't consider it stable yet -- but the
reworking of the utility directories is what was needed to identify the differences.

--Mark