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Hi Paul,

On Friday 28 June 2013 11:16:14 Paul Barker wrote:
> On 28 June 2013 10:40, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Just chiming in to say that sounds excellent. Will this contain a
> known-working make as well for those with a broken make 3.82?

A patch has recently been merged to do exactly this, yes.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre