From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com ([209.85.160.53]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NB72K-0004ms-GO for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:27:03 +0100 Received: by pwj11 with SMTP id 11so1388581pwj.12 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:25:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=XeWAb44UovuJgfDYZd8yvQv7TrihCTXYqetbIPhL85o=; b=QPQR0W5cbH+3jBDoMu3KWkHNsus0cRRwdbN8d0vLmXcOAHJDNXQeO/GumYfXqdMhQ4 ZH02ULLsR7hcDHs6QbUyd33o7Jn/0qKDQBbliWZUjxmawIhKflKY8VQHYWYI/BPt3kVP XbX35EWRDUC3FTT18wRUNWA7aSfeAKUMBIEaM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=pl/rDJcyA8fYHAgLAPcQvS8nc82r7ibiGjitBV2pIH6Tm/xUV3HionlulGKJ6jQ9lS N5Keyxj0vWfuW+LR2g0Xo6Sewh/PB9QLFE4RPPIe2YQzRecF3xFPjjScYoLZEkU17rjC PrtyPavww3/IUPl6uGQ/Rnp33rvEDNYjs0U4w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.29.14 with SMTP id c14mr8078401wac.111.1258637134771; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:25:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200911191422.43470.marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl> References: <200911191422.43470.marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:25:34 +0500 Message-ID: <818ccfc40911190525g7aa33d4dkee8028bbfeb253cb@mail.gmail.com> From: Ahsan Khawaja To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 209.85.160.53 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ahsan.khwaja@gmail.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.11 Subject: Re: Which distro for OE development? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:27:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 napisa=B3(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 a= ll > > 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 soo= n > > requiring a more up to date version. > > OpenEmbedded require Python 2.4 or newer. Debian lenny (stable) and squee= ze > (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, > -- > JID: hrw@jabber.org > Website: http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinjuszkiewicz > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel >