[yocto] Install Torch7

[Fabien Lahoudere]

On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 08:37 +0000, Abayiz wrote:
> Dear all, 
> 
> I'm quite new to Yocto, I've successfully built qemu and ran helloworld example on it. Now I'm
> trying to install Torch 7 (https://github.com/torch/torch7) library. What I did is: 
> 
> devtool add torch https://github.com/torch/torch7.git
> devtool build torch
> 
> But the build exits with error, in the attachment I share the log file with you. 
> My host machine runs Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Torch7 is successfully running on it. The installation
> of Torch first requires to run the 'bash install-deps' command on Ubuntu. My rough estimation is
> that Yocto seems like cannot build those dependencies automatically. 
> 
> Could someone give any help on it? Installing Torch7 is very important to my project now, thank
> you in advance. 
> 

Do you try "devtool edit-recipe torch" to add dependencies to the recipe and configure "cache
variables" approprietly?

> Best, 
> Abayiz
>