Using the tarballs for Poky and meta-intel for 1.2_M2-Final, I was 
getting a lot of build failures below is what worked and what didn't. 
Not sure if this is a bug or if I'm missing something. I extracted the 
meta-intel tarball for 1.2_M2-Final in the poky directory created by 
extracting the poky tarball for 1.2_M2.Final.

 1. building qemux86 core-image-minimal works
 2. building qemux86 core-image-sato works
 3. building n450 core-image-minimal fails with error: ERROR: Unable to
    parse /home/jim/poky/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb:00:20
    Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "/home/jim/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/ast.py", line 379, in
    multi_finalize(fn='/home/jim/poky/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb
    <http://task-base.bb>', d=<bb.data_smart.DataSmart object at
    0x4a801d0>):
              try:
     >        finalize(fn, d)
              except bb.parse.SkipPackage as e:
       File "/home/jim/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/parse/ast.py", line 323, in
    finalize(fn='/home/jim/poky/meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb
    <http://task-base.bb>', d=<bb.data_smart.DataSmart object at
    0x4a801d0>, variant=None):
                  code.append("%s(d)" % funcname)
     >    bb.utils.simple_exec("\n".join(code), {"d": d})
              bb.data.update_data(d)
       File "/home/jim/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py", line 387, in
    simple_exec(code='__anon_119__home_jim_poky_meta_classes_staging_bbclass(d)\n__anon_485__home_jim_poky_meta_classes_base_bbclass(d)\n__anon_189__home_jim_poky_meta_classes_package_bbclass(d)\n__anon_1034__home_jim_poky_meta_classes_package_rpm_bbclass(d)\n__anon_20__home_jim_poky_meta_classes_debian_bbclass(d)\n__anon_55__home_jim_poky_meta_classes_sstate_bbclass(d)\n__anon_26__home_jim_poky_meta_classes_task_bbclass(d)\n__anon_140__home_jim_poky_meta_recipes_core_tasks_task_base_bb(d)',
    context={'d': <bb.data_smart.DataSmart object at 0x4a801d0>}):
          def simple_exec(code, context):
     >    exec(code, _context, context)

       File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
       File
    "__anon_140__home_jim_poky_meta_recipes_core_tasks_task_base_bb",
    line 8, in
    __anon_140__home_jim_poky_meta_recipes_core_tasks_task_base_bb(d=<bb.data_smart.DataSmart
    object at 0x4a801d0>)
    AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

    ERROR: Command execution failed: Exited with 1
    Summary: There were 1 WARNING messages shown.

    Summary: There were 1 ERROR messages shown, returning a non-zero
    exit code.

 4. building cedartrail core-image-minimal fails with error: ERROR:
    Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf: Could not include required file
    conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc

Jim A