OK, I'm slowly solving my own problems. Regarding the missing utilities from the sanity checker - I did not understand that these are utilities that were needed on the HOST - not part of bitbake at all!
Now that I'm past the sanity checker, it looks like bitbake s chugging along happily making a vase-image. Walt On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Walt Scrivens wrote: > I'm trying bitbake for the first time, and I'm plowing through the > documentation, but I'm finding some answers that are confusing me, or can't > find answers at all. > > First, for the output of bitbake, the wiki says, "Output of the build process > (temporary files, log files and the binaries) all ends up in the tmp > directory. Most interesting is probably the tmp/work/ directory." > TMPDIR in local.conf points to a particular directory, but there are no log > files in it, only a cache folder and 3 text files with version numbers in > them. Where is the output (the flash image) placed? > > Second, I'm getting an error message from the sanity checker, > "Please install following missing utilities: > help2man,diffstat,texi2html,makeinfo,cvs,chrpath" > There is a folder, containing the .bb and .inc files, in the recipes folder > for all of them except makeinfo. What do I need to do to "install" them? > > Third, I am getting warnings about a number of packages that have been > superseded, like ipkg. Do I just remove their folders from recipes to make > them go away, or is there a config somewhere that I have missed? local.conf > appears to point to recipes/*/*. > > Thanks. > > Walt > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
