On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:31:10 Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2013-12-12 09:28, Gary Thomas wrote: > > On 2013-12-12 09:20, Paul Eggleton wrote: > >> Hi Gary, > >> > >> On Thursday 12 December 2013 08:06:31 Gary Thomas wrote: > >>> I've found that the latest bitbake fetcher changes (require > >>> the use of branch names) fails with older versions of git. > >>> I have a Fedora 13 machine which I routinely use to build > >>> my Yocto projects that has git version 1.7.7.6. On that machine, > >>> all git fetches fail, no matter what. On my Ubuntu builder > >>> which has git 1.7.9.4, all is OK. > >>> > >>> I see that there is a git recipe in OE-core. How can I force > >>> it to be built and used where the host's native git is inadequate? > >> > >> The solution we provide for this kind of situation is buildtools-tarball, > >> as described here (linked from the QS guide as well): > >> > >> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#requi > >> red-git-tar-and-python-versions> > > Thanks, I'll give this a go. > > Oops, looks like I have a circular dependency problem since trying to make > the buildtools-tarball actually needs a working version of git??
I don't think it's reasonable to expect to build buildtools-tarball on a system that isn't capable of building at the moment; you should just download a prebuilt version as linked from the manual section above *or* build it on another machine. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
