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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