On Wednesday 21 November 2012 17:23:56 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i've noticed there are various web pages purporting to explain how > to set up a proper OE/yocto development host, but they give what is > pretty clearly contradictory information. > > as one example, there's this page on getting started with OE: > > http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Getting_started
I produced this page recently; FWIW I also came up with the pared-down package lists that went into the Quick Start Guide which this page borrows. How is this contradictory if it uses the same information? > that claims to steal from a number of sources including the yocto QS > guide, but look at the packages one is instructed to install on that > page, particularly under fedora: python, perl, git, and so on. So I don't recall exactly how perl got on that list; but python and git are absolutely required on the host. That's why they're in ASSUME_PROVIDED. > as i read it, the sanity.bbclass and ASSUME_PROVIDED will dictate > what needs to be there and what will be used if it's installed > natively, no? it certainly seems that that wiki page is insructing > the developer to install a lot of software that OE will handle > automatically, no? Er, no. Well, if by "handle automatically" you mean "error out when they are not present" then that's not very helpful - it's much easier if people just get a list of what they need to install up front. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
