[yocto] Errors building with Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows)

[Alex Lennon]

On 01/10/2017 09:20, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 09/29/2017 05:01 PM, Dominig ar Foll (Intel Open Source) wrote:
>>> Due to what our IT department can support, I am issued a Windows 
>>> laptop for development.  In the past I have used VMWare to make a 
>>> Linux virtual machine for my Yocto Project based image builds and 
>>> application development. We are starting to get Windows 10 laptops 
>>> so I am evaluating doing my builds using the Windows Subsystem for 
>>> Linux (WSL) by building a poky/morty image.  Overall it seems to be 
>>> working. I've had an issue that I've worked through and other issues 
>>> that I'm not quite sure what is going on.
>>>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> I have been trying the same thing attempting to build Automotive Grade
>> Linux from Linux for Windows subsystem.
>> We have many adopter of AGL who also receive Windows PC from their IT
>> department. While VM work, they impose a serious limitation on memory
>> and CPU usage.
>
> Does anyone else think doing embedded linux development on windows 
> machines is a ridiculous situation, and needs to be discussed with 
> companies management? IT departments should either support product R&D 
> work (because at the end of the day that is where the company makes 
> money), or stay out of the way and let engineers self-manage their 
> computers, including installing weird operating systems.

+1

I suspect that technical people saying technical things have very little 
impact on upstream bean-counters.

If one was to, say, quantify the amount of time and therefore money the 
entire team are putting into wrangling the Windows machines into doing a 
half baked job of building Linux versus the capital cost and (presumably 
negligible) cost of IT support, with a commentary on limiting any 
security impact, I suspect some spanking new Linux boxes would arrive 
quite quickly

Cheers,

Alex