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From: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Supported host systems?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:22:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E82228E.9010007@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110927175221.65201140799C@gemini.denx.de>

On 09/27/2011 10:52 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Which Linux distributions are actually supported (and known to work)
> as host systems for building Yocto / Poky?
>
> The "Poky Handbook" says:
>
> 	We recommend Debian-based distributions, in particular a
> 	recent Ubuntu release (7.04 or newer), as the host system for
> 	Poky.
>
> But Ubuntu 7.04 does not work, and even 8.04 does not (Python too old,
> intltool too old, ...).
>
> I want to use a maximally old known-to-be-working distribution to make
> sure the resulting tools will work on a wide range of distributions as
> is, i. e. without need to rebuild from the sources everywhere.
>
> Which is the oldest known-to-be-working version of Ubuntu? Or Debian,
> or Fedora, or CentOS, or ... ?
>
Your timing is pretty good, we are updating the docs for 1.1 and we 
should ensure that this information is up todate.  Was you may have seen 
in other emails Paul is working on collecting some of this information, 
please check:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Distribution_Support

Sau!
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>


      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27 17:52 Supported host systems? Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-27 19:22 ` Saul Wold [this message]

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