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

[Laurentiu Palcu]

Hi Brian,

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 05:21:53PM -0400, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> 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")
> 
>                                                 ^
This commit:

commit 39356f622d3d2226f12c4930beeaf4b392d90ca5
Author: Konrad Scherer <Konrad.Scherer at windriver.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 17 10:17:20 2013 -0400

    relocate_sdk.py: Allow script to work with Python 2.4 and 3.

should fix your issue.

Thanks,
Laurentiu
> 
>     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=c160a982551f5d6186081daa8fa20682fd7fae17 but 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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