Re: Bitbake build error on Fedora 12 x86 64-bit

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 25-01-10 12:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> 
>> On Sunday 24 January 2010 16:34:43 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>>> On the other hand I agree totally agree that more testers the
>>>> better, but IMO this would also mean that they follow the low
>>>> volume bitbake-dev mailinglist, to get information like the
>>>> svn->git switch, branches and such?!
>>>
>>>   i'm currently updating the bitbake manual (yes, you should be
>>> nervous) and i noticed that there is nothing early on about how to
>>> *get* bitbake.  so i'm going to add a short section, suggesting
>>> first to use the latest official tarball (explaining where to get
>>> it), followed by a section for more advanced users on how to check
>>> it out, with the appropriate cautions.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for doing this update.
> 
>   still working on it, but a question.  a while back, i observed that
> one of the OE branches (stable/2009?) came with bitbake built in,
> while the other i work with (dev) did not.  or was it the other way
> around?  and there was some confusion as to why the situation would be
> different between the two branches.
> 
>   can i document that, no matter what branch one is working with, the
> proper approach is to download bitbake separately and make sure that's
> the one that's being invoked.  (i might add a short side note that
> some branches came with bitbake built in, but users should *not* take
> advantage of that.)
> 
>   does that sound reasonable?

*If* is has bitbake builtin, users should use that one, as it is certain
that bitbake will match the metadata. You can opt to choose to install a
bitbake yourself, but then it's up to you to make sure bitbake and OE match.
Since stable/2009 is a long term branch we decided to put bitbake in
there to remove at least on point of failure.

regards,

Koen
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