[yocto] Yocto 1.1 Beta Questions

Thu Sep 8 09:22:46 PDT 2011

On 09/08/2011 09:21 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 09/08/2011 09:20 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>> 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}"
>>
> Actually for devshell I think it's OE_TERMINAL="screen", Chris L. was 
> going to do a write up on this I think

Ah, sorry, I missed that bit of context.

--
Darren

> 
> Sau!
> 
>>
>> --
>> 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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