[yocto] Yocto 1.1 Beta Questions

[Jason Kridner]

Isn't bitbake supposed to be smart enough to discover and use 'screen'
instead now?

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Stewart, David C
<david.c.stewart at intel.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I ran into the same thing, Brian. Installing xterm is missing from the
> quickstart and the beta instructions. Sorry about that.
>
>
> Sent from my Blackberry
>
> From: Brian Duffy [mailto:brduffy at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 04:51 PM
> To: Osier-mixon, Jeffrey; yocto at yoctoproject.org <yocto at yoctoproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto 1.1 Beta Questions
>
> Okay, so it turns out that I had already downloaded what I needed with the
> instructions from the latest blog post for the beta release. It specifically
> mentions certain command to replace from the quick start guide. So I went
> into the "oe-beta" directory and ran . ./oe-init-build-env ~/my-build and
> that set up my environment variables. When I ran bitbake core-image-minimal
> I got an error stating that xterm was not installed. That might be something
> to include in the quick start section of things to install first. Anyway, it
> seems to be happily building a minimal linux distro for the emulator to run.
> I'll let you know if it works out.
> thnx
> Brian
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
> <jeffrey.osier-mixon at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> One more thing - if you prefer a tarball to git (easier on some corporate
>> networks) the process is the same, just un-tar the tarball into a working
>> directory and cd into the poky subdir and go from there. The tarball should
>> be the latest stable release.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
>> <jeffrey.osier-mixon at intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Brian, sorry for the delay.
>>> If you download the poky tarball or use git to grab it and then follow
>>> the instructions on the quick-start, the tools should build automatically.
>>>  In a nutshell, try this:
>>> git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git
>>> cd poky
>>> . ./oe-core-build-env
>>> [that should put you into a build directory]
>>> vi conf/local.conf  [set at least MACHINE, instructions in the file]
>>> bitbake core-minimal
>>> I hope this helps!  I'm on IRC as Jefro or available by email, let me
>>> know if I can help at all.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Brian Duffy <brduffy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the input Jeff. I have not downloaded the tools yet. I'll
>>>> probably download the tarball since I don't have much experience with git.
>>>> I'll set the bbpath in local.conf and uninstall bitbake from the package
>>>> manager before I do so. I guess building the tools will take care of bitbake
>>>> and pseudo. Any help with how to build the tools would be appreciated, but
>>>> no hurry, enjoy the holiday!
>>>> thnx
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
>>>> <jeffrey.osier-mixon at intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Brian - both bitbake and pseudo are part of the Yocto toolset. The
>>>>> standard bitbake from the package manager on your host is not the correct
>>>>> one. Make sure you have set your environment properly by sourcing the
>>>>> build-env script, and it should be set correctly.
>>>>> As Jason says, set BBPATH in your project directory in conf/local.conf
>>>>> How did you download the tools, tarball or git?  I find it easiest to
>>>>> do this:
>>>>> git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git
>>>>> Note that responses may be delayed on a US holiday weekend :)
>>>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jason Kridner
>>>>> <jkridner at beagleboard.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Brian Duffy <brduffy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi Yocto group. I am new to Yocto. I followed the starters guide and
>>>>>> > When
>>>>>> > running bitbake I get some errors. first it complains that pseudo is
>>>>>> > not
>>>>>> > available but required, and then it complains that bbpath is not
>>>>>> > set. What
>>>>>> > is pseudo?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google should have helped you with this question:
>>>>>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/projects/pseudo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe the primary purpose is to be able to create files with root
>>>>>> ownership without root access.  This is critical for building your
>>>>>> file system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > I have sudo installed and setup to work for me, but I don't know
>>>>>> > what pseudo is. Also, bitbake was not installed on my fresh install
>>>>>> > of
>>>>>> > Fedora 15 so I installed it through the package manager.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I doubt you want to do that, but I don't see anything in the
>>>>>> instructions provided to tell you where to get it either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > I guess that was
>>>>>> > not included in the packages from the getting started guide. Where
>>>>>> > do I set
>>>>>> > the bbpath?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you edit conf/local.conf?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > I followed the getting started guide and replaced the
>>>>>> > appropriate commands with the ones from Davids blog post for the
>>>>>> > latest
>>>>>> > release.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > thnx
>>>>>> > Brian
>>>>>> > --
>>>>>> > Duff
>>>>>> >
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Duff
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