Yep - this is on my plate to document. Scott
>-----Original Message----- >From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- >boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton >Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:40 AM >To: Chris Tapp >Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org >Subject: Re: [yocto] Bitbake requires Python 2.7.3 > >Hi Chris, > >On Friday 28 June 2013 09:55:42 Chris Tapp wrote: >> I'm experimenting with meta-fsl-arm and I need to use 'master' for >some of >> the latest updates. However, when I build I get told that "Bitbake >requires >> Python 2.7.3". >> >> My development system is Ubuntu 11.10, which only has 2.7.2 (and is >out of >> support, so no updates!) and the "latest" "Quick Start" manual simply >says >> that 2.7 is required. >> >> Is 2.7.3 now a hard requirement (in which case the documentation could >do >> with a minor change), or is the version test being too specific? > >It is now a requirement, yes (as are git >= 1.7.5 and tar >= 1.24). As I >understand it a documentation update is queued to cover this. > >FWIW, for older hosts where installing these tools in the normal fashion >is >difficult or impractical, there is now buildtools-tarball (which >replaces and >extends the old external-python-tarball). This builds on the relocatable >SDK >installer to provide suitable versions of python, git, tar and other >tools >required on the build host. I believe the plan is to offer this for >download so >that people can get started immediately (and of course point to this in >the >documentation). > >Cheers, >Paul > >-- > >Paul Eggleton >Intel Open Source Technology Centre >_______________________________________________ >yocto mailing list >yocto@yoctoproject.org >https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto