Re: ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.17_setup_linux_x86.bin error while installing ti-codec-engine

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2011-09-28 08:58, Michael Poole wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2011-09-23 14:46, Michael Poole wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Check to make sure that you don't have write permission to /opt
>>>> If you have write permission in the directory /opt, the installer
>>>> fails to put the tools where they belong in your OE build.
>>>
>>> Is it generally known that this limitation is due to a bug in
>>> ti-eula-unpack.inc?  (Python's print automatically adds a newline,
>>> which the code's author apparently did not expect.)  My local repo has
>>> these changes to allow in-tree installs by users with write access to
>>> /opt; please pardon Gmail's mangling of leading whitespace:
>>
>> I don't know if this is a generally known fact; it should be, I reported it
>> to
>> this list more than a year ago and was basically ignored [actually told I
>> just
>> shouldn't have write access to /opt so the issue was my own fault...]
>>
>> Does the unpack work with your patches if /opt is not writeable?
>
> Yes, it does.  (It took a few days for me to find time to do a clean
> rebuild on a system where I didn't need write access to /opt.)

Thanks for checking.

Will you push these changes into meta-texasinstruments (please)?

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