Re: Which distro for OE development?

[Ahsan Khawaja <ahsan.khwaja@gmail.com>]

build my development system on Ubuntu 9.04 and found no problem.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz <
marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl> wrote:

> Dnia czwartek, 19 listopada 2009 o 14:06:43 Hodgson, Simon napisał(a):
>
> > I'm setting up a new machine with Linux specifically to use for
> >  OpenEmbedded development. Which Linux distro should I go with?
> >
> > I'm looking to make it as easy as possible to get started, so ideally all
> >  the packages I need will be available from that distro's standard
> >  repositry.
> >
> > I've tried SuSE in the past and given up trying to get all of the
> required
> > tools installed, and more recently been using Debian, but the Python
> > version in Debian is a few versions behind and there was talk of OE soon
> > requiring a more up to date version.
>
> OpenEmbedded require Python 2.4 or newer. Debian lenny (stable) and squeeze
> (testing) should work fine. I use 'sid' for development.
>
> > Ubuntu is a good candidate at the moment as I belive there won't be any
> > hardware issues with the laptop I want to use, but this wiki page
> suggests
> > there's some faffing to do
> > http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Gcc_issues_in_Intrepid_and_later
> > which I'd like to avoid if possible - does anyone know if these issues
> are
> > present in the latest version 9.10?
>
> I use OpenEmbedded on Ubuntu 8.04 machine and Poky on 8.04/9.04/9.10
> without
> problems.
>
> So I suggest Debian 'testing' or Ubuntu 9.10/9.04 as a base.
>
> Regards,
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