________________________________________ From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org <yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org> on behalf of Philip Balister <phi...@balister.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 15:39 To: jags gediya; yocto@yoctoproject.org; meta-freesc...@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] How to build yocto as a root user?
On 08/09/2016 09:32 AM, jags gediya wrote: > > I am facing issues while build yocto as root user on ubuntu 14.04. > > How can i build as a root user? > > Do not do this, it is a terrible idea. Create a user account and build > there. > > Philip You are right Philip, for building with yocto/bitbake it is a bad idea. I only read the part with becoming root, and forgot that I do not build as root. However, to be able to build a usable file system that installs on target I think installing fakeroot is necessary: $ sudo apt-get install fakeroot $ man fakeroot /BR Jan > > > -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto