Still having build problems - what version of python is required?

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

So I gave up, for the time being, trying to build behind
my firewall.

I tried to set up a machine outside my firewall to do a build.
Unfortunately, this machine is a bit dated.  It is running
Fedora 8, with python version 2.5.1.

Here's what I get when I run bitbake:

[tbird@tree poky-4.0-build]$ bitbake poky-image-minimal
  File "/a/home/tbird/work/yocto/poky-laverne-4.0/scripts/..//bitbake//bin/bitbake", line 207
    except Exception as e:
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
[tbird@tree poky-4.0-build]$ python --version
Python 2.5.1
[tbird@tree poky-4.0-build]$ cat /etc/issue
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)1

What version of python is required?

Note also that I couldn't find a prce package for this distro, despite
there being an prce-devel page available.  I don't know how important
that will be for building stuff.

Is it a dead end trying to get a host distro this old to build
poky?
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
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