[yocto] Bitbake requires Python 2.7.3

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Chris,

On Friday 28 June 2013 09:55:42 Chris Tapp wrote:
> I'm experimenting with meta-fsl-arm and I need to use 'master' for some of
> the latest updates. However, when I build I get told that "Bitbake requires
> Python 2.7.3".
> 
> My development system is Ubuntu 11.10, which only has 2.7.2 (and is out of
> support, so no updates!) and the "latest" "Quick Start" manual simply says
> that 2.7 is required.
> 
> Is 2.7.3 now a hard requirement (in which case the documentation could do
> with a minor change), or is the version test being too specific?

It is now a requirement, yes (as are git >= 1.7.5 and tar >= 1.24). As I 
understand it a documentation update is queued to cover this.

FWIW, for older hosts where installing these tools in the normal fashion is 
difficult or impractical, there is now buildtools-tarball (which replaces and 
extends the old external-python-tarball). This builds on the relocatable SDK 
installer to provide suitable versions of python, git, tar and other tools 
required on the build host. I believe the plan is to offer this for download so 
that people can get started immediately (and of course point to this in the 
documentation).

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre