[yocto] Yocto 1.1 Beta Questions

Thu Sep 8 09:20:18 PDT 2011

On 09/07/2011 05:41 AM, Jason Kridner wrote:
> Isn't bitbake supposed to be smart enough to discover and use 'screen'
> instead now?

It depends on your setting in local.conf

TERMCMD = "${SCREEN_TERMCMD}"
TERMCMDRUN = "${SCREEN_TERMCMDRUN}"


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Darren

> 
> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Duff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
>>>> Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org
>>
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