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

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

[Tim Bird]

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

[Gary Thomas]

On 12/02/2010 11:54 AM, Tim Bird wrote:
> 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.

You need at least 2.6

> 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?

Probably yes.  Can't you upgrade?  Fedora 8 is really old now...

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

[Joshua Lock]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:54 -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
> 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?

Possibly not, poky can build a standalone Python for people without
Python 2.6 on their host system. If you've any will left it could be
enough, I've used this Python version to do Poky builds on CentOS 5.5.

You need the appropriate version from
http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/downloads/miscsupport/

It will need extracting at / and will inflate
to /opt/poky/sysroots/$ARCH-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/python you'll probably
want to update your PATH.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre