Isn't bitbake supposed to be smart enough to discover and use 'screen' instead now?
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Stewart, David C <david.c.stew...@intel.com> wrote: > Yeah, I ran into the same thing, Brian. Installing xterm is missing from the > quickstart and the beta instructions. Sorry about that. > > > Sent from my Blackberry > > From: Brian Duffy [mailto:brdu...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 04:51 PM > To: Osier-mixon, Jeffrey; yocto@yoctoproject.org <yocto@yoctoproject.org> > Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto 1.1 Beta Questions > > Okay, so it turns out that I had already downloaded what I needed with the > instructions from the latest blog post for the beta release. It specifically > mentions certain command to replace from the quick start guide. So I went > into the "oe-beta" directory and ran . ./oe-init-build-env ~/my-build and > that set up my environment variables. When I ran bitbake core-image-minimal > I got an error stating that xterm was not installed. That might be something > to include in the quick start section of things to install first. Anyway, it > seems to be happily building a minimal linux distro for the emulator to run. > I'll let you know if it works out. > thnx > Brian > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey > <jeffrey.osier-mi...@intel.com> wrote: >> >> One more thing - if you prefer a tarball to git (easier on some corporate >> networks) the process is the same, just un-tar the tarball into a working >> directory and cd into the poky subdir and go from there. The tarball should >> be the latest stable release. >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey >> <jeffrey.osier-mi...@intel.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Brian, sorry for the delay. >>> If you download the poky tarball or use git to grab it and then follow >>> the instructions on the quick-start, the tools should build automatically. >>> In a nutshell, try this: >>> git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git >>> cd poky >>> . ./oe-core-build-env >>> [that should put you into a build directory] >>> vi conf/local.conf [set at least MACHINE, instructions in the file] >>> bitbake core-minimal >>> I hope this helps! I'm on IRC as Jefro or available by email, let me >>> know if I can help at all. >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Brian Duffy <brdu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks for the input Jeff. I have not downloaded the tools yet. I'll >>>> probably download the tarball since I don't have much experience with git. >>>> I'll set the bbpath in local.conf and uninstall bitbake from the package >>>> manager before I do so. I guess building the tools will take care of >>>> bitbake >>>> and pseudo. Any help with how to build the tools would be appreciated, but >>>> no hurry, enjoy the holiday! >>>> thnx >>>> Brian >>>> >>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey >>>> <jeffrey.osier-mi...@intel.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Brian - both bitbake and pseudo are part of the Yocto toolset. The >>>>> standard bitbake from the package manager on your host is not the correct >>>>> one. Make sure you have set your environment properly by sourcing the >>>>> build-env script, and it should be set correctly. >>>>> As Jason says, set BBPATH in your project directory in conf/local.conf >>>>> How did you download the tools, tarball or git? I find it easiest to >>>>> do this: >>>>> git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git >>>>> Note that responses may be delayed on a US holiday weekend :) >>>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jason Kridner >>>>> <jkrid...@beagleboard.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Brian Duffy <brdu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> > Hi Yocto group. I am new to Yocto. I followed the starters guide and >>>>>> > When >>>>>> > running bitbake I get some errors. first it complains that pseudo is >>>>>> > not >>>>>> > available but required, and then it complains that bbpath is not >>>>>> > set. What >>>>>> > is pseudo? >>>>>> >>>>>> Google should have helped you with this question: >>>>>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/projects/pseudo. >>>>>> >>>>>> I believe the primary purpose is to be able to create files with root >>>>>> ownership without root access. This is critical for building your >>>>>> file system. >>>>>> >>>>>> > I have sudo installed and setup to work for me, but I don't know >>>>>> > what pseudo is. Also, bitbake was not installed on my fresh install >>>>>> > of >>>>>> > Fedora 15 so I installed it through the package manager. >>>>>> >>>>>> I doubt you want to do that, but I don't see anything in the >>>>>> instructions provided to tell you where to get it either. >>>>>> >>>>>> > I guess that was >>>>>> > not included in the packages from the getting started guide. Where >>>>>> > do I set >>>>>> > the bbpath? >>>>>> >>>>>> Did you edit conf/local.conf? >>>>>> >>>>>> > I followed the getting started guide and replaced the >>>>>> > appropriate commands with the ones from Davids blog post for the >>>>>> > latest >>>>>> > release. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > thnx >>>>>> > Brian >>>>>> > -- >>>>>> > Duff >>>>>> > >>>>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>>>> > yocto mailing list >>>>>> > yocto@yoctoproject.org >>>>>> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> yocto mailing list >>>>>> yocto@yoctoproject.org >>>>>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog >>>>> Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Duff >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog >>> Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog >> Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org > > > > -- > Duff > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
