From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com (mail1.windriver.com [147.11.146.13]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CAB260810 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail1.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r5J25tgm022997 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Marks-MacBook-Pro.local (172.25.36.227) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.3; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:05:53 -0700 Message-ID: <51C11201.2010306@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:05:53 -0500 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: Problem with buildtools-tarball / nativesdk-ncurses / nativesdk-python X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:05:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My host system's python version is too old due to the recent changes. So I built a temporary python 2.7.3 version. Built the 'buildtools-tarball' and then installed it. When I switch to the included python it no longer works. I did some digging, the problem in the end is related to ncurses within the nativesdk. Running the following: py_v26_check=`python -c 'import sys; print sys.version_info >= (2,6,3)'` which python echo "$py_v26_check" | od -c if [ "$py_v26_check" != "True" ]; then echo "BitBake requires Python 2.7.3 or later" exit 1 fi You can see the difference in behavior: TERM=xterm /home/lmhatle/build-qemux86_64-2/buildtools/sysroots/x86_64-wrlinuxsdk-linux/usr/bin/python 0000000 033 [ ? 1 0 3 4 h T r u e \n 0000015 BitBake requires Python 2.7.3 or later ----- TERM=vt100 /home/lmhatle/build-qemux86_64-2/buildtools/sysroots/x86_64-wrlinuxsdk-linux/usr/bin/python 0000000 T r u e \n 0000005 ----- So as you can see specifying a different terminal type is happily changing the output of python. When I use my locally built version, I don't get the same behavior. I always get the second version. So is there a problem with the nativesdk python, nativesdk ncurses or??? (I've not yet filed a bug on this, but I will if I can't figure it out soon.) --Mark