Re: [oe] Does the OS make a difference?

2010-09-03 Thread J. L.
I figured as much but was worth asking :P I hate reinstalls, thanks as always though. Side note though I finally got my first recipe to almost work it creates an ipk and i can install to an existing image but the program doesnt run right so I messed up configuring it but I am getting closer to get

Re: [oe] Does the OS make a difference?

2010-09-02 Thread AJ ONeal
As with any operating system, I would recommend a clean install. IME, upgrades always leave cruft. It's easy enough to get a list of installed packages http://www.arsgeek.com/2006/09/19/ubuntu-tricks-how-to-generate-a-list-of-installed-packages-and-use-it-to-reinstall-packages/ git rid of any ver

Re: [oe] Does the OS make a difference?

2010-09-02 Thread J. L.
Do you know if doing a standard method of upgrading would be ok or should I start from a full clean install? Thanks On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Douglas Royds wrote: > On 03/09/10 05:19, J. L. wrote: >> >> I would be interested to know as well I am building on 9.10 and seem >> to get more er

Re: [oe] Does the OS make a difference?

2010-09-02 Thread Douglas Royds
On 03/09/10 05:19, J. L. wrote: I would be interested to know as well I am building on 9.10 and seem to get more errors than those building on 10.04 or 10.10 with 64 bit On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: It would be worth it to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 10.04 if it really

Re: [oe] Does the OS make a difference?

2010-09-02 Thread Khem Raj
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > The way that I understand it, OE natively compiles everything it needs for > cross-compiling everything the target needs - perl, python, etc. not everything but things that it needs different from native ones. It still uses lot of the packages ins

Re: [oe] Does the OS make a difference?

2010-09-02 Thread J. L.
I would be interested to know as well I am building on 9.10 and seem to get more errors than those building on 10.04 or 10.10 with 64 bit On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > The way that I understand it, OE natively compiles everything it needs for > cross-compiling everything the

[oe] Does the OS make a difference?

2010-09-02 Thread AJ ONeal
The way that I understand it, OE natively compiles everything it needs for cross-compiling everything the target needs - perl, python, etc. However, I hear people using Ubuntu 10.04 say that they don't have problems building the same thing that I'm building. Is that just random happenstance or is