From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231A1E01482 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 Jun 2013 02:41:38 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,958,1363158000"; d="scan'208";a="361936476" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.122.97]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 Jun 2013 02:40:22 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Chris Tapp Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:40:21 +0100 Message-ID: <76247853.lJbnn8TcbK@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.10.3 (Linux/3.8.0-25-generic; KDE/4.10.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <14A8E2D5-FF50-4903-A839-806D77B12FF8@keylevel.com> References: <14A8E2D5-FF50-4903-A839-806D77B12FF8@keylevel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Bitbake requires Python 2.7.3 X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:40:26 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Chris, On Friday 28 June 2013 09:55:42 Chris Tapp wrote: > I'm experimenting with meta-fsl-arm and I need to use 'master' for some of > the latest updates. However, when I build I get told that "Bitbake requires > Python 2.7.3". > > My development system is Ubuntu 11.10, which only has 2.7.2 (and is out of > support, so no updates!) and the "latest" "Quick Start" manual simply says > that 2.7 is required. > > Is 2.7.3 now a hard requirement (in which case the documentation could do > with a minor change), or is the version test being too specific? It is now a requirement, yes (as are git >= 1.7.5 and tar >= 1.24). As I understand it a documentation update is queued to cover this. FWIW, for older hosts where installing these tools in the normal fashion is difficult or impractical, there is now buildtools-tarball (which replaces and extends the old external-python-tarball). This builds on the relocatable SDK installer to provide suitable versions of python, git, tar and other tools required on the build host. I believe the plan is to offer this for download so that people can get started immediately (and of course point to this in the documentation). Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre