while i'm perusing the OE manual at the moment, this is a bitbake-related question so i'll ask it here: what is the *recommended* way for someone to install BB? the info in the docs is confusing and inconsistent.
AFAIK, bitbake is just a tarball that can be installed anywhere as long as your PATH is adjusted accordingly to find it. yet the OE manual has some strange advice, starting with that it's recommended to install it as a sibling directory to your OE base dir. why? what possible benefit could that have? sure, it can't *hurt* but unless there's a measurable *benefit* to some action, i don't think it should be considered recommended. it just misleads and confuses the reader. does that make sense? then there's the OE manual advice: "If you followed the recommendation to use BitBake from svn, ..." oh, come on, that's just silly. perhaps advanced users might want to keep up with bitbake development, but normal users should not be given that advice. it would seem that bitbake installation could be summed up thusly: * the tarballs can be found here: http://download.berlios.de/bitbake/, and you should always be using the latest release * some distros (like ubuntu) have a bitbake package you can install. if it matches the latest version *only*, you can use it. if it doesn't, use the tarball. * if you use the tarball, you can install it anywhere as long as you adjust PATH * only if you're feeling extra keen should you consider working with the svn checkout. beyond that, i see no other useful advice for the installation. have i missed anything? because as it stands, if one reads the online docs, one is apt to come away confused. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Bitbake-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-dev
