[yocto] Getting a relocate_sdk.py issue when installing a sdk on Centos

[Brian Hutchinson]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to research this issue I'm seeing but hit a bunch of noise.  I
> generated a Yocto 1.5 sdk with my image and -c populate_sdk for i686.  When
> a collegue tries to install the sdk on his Centos box with Python 2.6.7, he
> gets:
>
> sudo ./poky-eglibc-i686-core-image-wcs-armv7a-vfp-neon-toolchain-1.5.sh
>
> Enter target directory for SDK (default: /opt/poky/1.5):
>
> The directory "/opt/poky/1.5" already contains a SDK for this architecture.
>
> If you continue, existing files will be overwritten! Proceed[y/N]?y
>
> Extracting SDK...done
>
> Setting it up...  File "/opt/poky/1.5/relocate_sdk.py", line 34
>
>     old_prefix = re.compile(b"/opt/poky/1\.5")
>
>                                             ^
>
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> SDK could not be set up. Relocate script failed. Abort!
>
>
> So I'm kind of scratching my head.  Then I think hey this is a 64 bit
> machine, maybe the x86_64 SDK will work so then I crank one of those out
> and after blowing away the stuff in /opt/poky/1.5 and running the install
> script with the 64bit SDK version we see the same error.
>
> One post I did see was Jason Wessel & Richard talking about some
> chicken/egg problem with certain versions of Python
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=c160a982551f5d6186081daa8fa20682fd7fae17but the version mentioned was 2.4.x and my collegue has 2.6.7.
>
> Is there some base set of packages that a machine needs to use the SDK
> generated by -c populate_sdk?
>
> I'm kind of at a loss as to why this works on some machines but not others.
>
> Regards,
>
>
Just some more information .... I can install this same sdk on my Ubuntu
12.04 box (32bit) just fine and it is running Python 2.7.3 in case any of
that matters.

Regards,

Brian
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