verifying all necessary OE-related software on your dev host

verifying all necessary OE-related software on your dev host

[Robert P. J. Day]

  assuming all i've done so far is:

$ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core oe-core
$ cd oe-core
$ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake bitbake

the only thing a beginner might want to do is check that the dev host
has all essential S/W for OE work.  i know that's documented in the
yocto QS guide here:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html

is there any automated way to check for this?  is there any OE/bitbake
equivalent to "please check that all necessary commands are
installed"?

  is there anything else at all that a user might want to verify
before starting to build their first image?   nothing leaps to mind,
but i just want to make sure i'm not missing anything.

rday

p.s.  subsequent questions will get more interesting, i promise.

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Re: verifying all necessary OE-related software on your dev host

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> $ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core oe-core
> $ cd oe-core
> $ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake bitbake
>
> the only thing a beginner might want to do is check that the dev host
> has all essential S/W for OE work.  i know that's documented in the
> yocto QS guide here:
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html
>
> is there any automated way to check for this?  is there any OE/bitbake
> equivalent to "please check that all necessary commands are
> installed"?
>
>  is there anything else at all that a user might want to verify
> before starting to build their first image?   nothing leaps to mind,
> but i just want to make sure i'm not missing anything.

The sanity bbclass checks for most things already, at least if you get
past the initial setup and can actually run bitbake :) Which doesn't
require much, other than configuration and python 2.6 or newer as
'python'.
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Christopher Larson

Re: verifying all necessary OE-related software on your dev host

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 27 March 2012 17:33:18 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> the only thing a beginner might want to do is check that the dev host
> has all essential S/W for OE work.  i know that's documented in the
> yocto QS guide here:
> 
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.h
> tml
> 
> is there any automated way to check for this?  is there any OE/bitbake
> equivalent to "please check that all necessary commands are
> installed"?

There are checks performed within sanity.bbclass to ensure the availability of 
all of these commands, so this happens automatically the first time a build is 
run.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: verifying all necessary OE-related software on your dev host

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 March 2012 17:33:18 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > the only thing a beginner might want to do is check that the dev host
> > has all essential S/W for OE work.  i know that's documented in the
> > yocto QS guide here:
> >
> > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.h
> > tml
> >
> > is there any automated way to check for this?  is there any OE/bitbake
> > equivalent to "please check that all necessary commands are
> > installed"?
>
> There are checks performed within sanity.bbclass to ensure the availability of
> all of these commands, so this happens automatically the first time a build is
> run.

  ok, and i can point out that that checking is already "require"d by
the default bitbake.conf file.  thanks.

rday

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