Christopher Lang wrote: > to simplify the setup of a new OE toolchain (->Getting started...) and to > save some time I wrote a script which automates this process. > > I thought that some of you guys might find it useful. It is sure not perfect > but does its job, maybe it is worth to put it in the wiki.
I had a few problems with it. I'm running on Mandrake 10, behind a corporate firewall. Here's what I encountered: 1) I had to strip \r's from the file before it would run: []$ ./bootstrap-oe.sh : bad interpreter: No such file or directory My solution: perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/;' bootstrap-oe.sh 2) There was a problem downloading the OE snapshot: []$ ./bootstrap-oe.sh Started bootstrapping OE at Thu Jun 8 14:23:14 PDT 2006 --14:23:14-- http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/OE/OE-20060522.tar.bz2 => `OE-20060522.tar.bz2.1' Resolving www-west.sony.com... 160.33.66.102 Connecting to www-west.sony.com[160.33.66.102]:80... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 17,644,366 [application/x-tar] 100%[==========================================>] 17,644,366 101.81K/s ETA 00:00 14:26:06 (100.62 KB/s) - `OE-20060522.tar.bz2.1' saved [17644366/17644366] bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly; perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows. bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files. You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data from undamaged sections of corrupted files. tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors -------------- I tried bootstrap-oe.sh a second time and this time the image appeared to be OK. 3) I can't use subversion from inside my firewall svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.berlios.de': Connection refused -------- After this, the kernel downloaded and configured OK (I think), but then I got these errors (certainly as cascades from the above failures): cp: cannot stat `org.openembedded.dev/conf/local.conf.sample': No such file or directory sed: can't read build/conf/local.conf.original: No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `openembedded/conf/distro/i586-OE-DISTRO.conf' to `../../../distro/i586-OE-DISTRO.conf': No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `openembedded/conf/machine/i586-OE-MACHINE.conf' to `../../../machine/i586-OE-MACHINE.conf': No such file or directory ln: `packages/linux': File exists ln: `packages/file': File exists ./bootstrap-oe.sh: line 337: bitbake: command not found Done at Thu Jun 8 14:28:15 PDT 2006 -------------------- The following is not directed at you, Christopher. Thanks for providing this script. I've been walking through the tutorial and user documentation for OE for the last day and a half, and it's quite difficult. Your script looks like it would help a lot, if it worked (no joke intended). <rant> Can anyone tell me why a snapshot of bitbake isn't included in OE? Or why isn't there a tar release of it lying around? Is every user of bitbake expected to be a developer of it? The dependency of OE on subversion, for users, is pretty weird IMHO. It looks like monotone is no longer required. This is good. I spent a frustrating 4 hours yesterday downloading, configuring and installing boost and monotone, and pre-requisites. Holy cow is boost a pain! It doesn't even use makefiles for building, but rather it's own abomination that you have to build first. I know I'm on a backward distro, but sheesh! One quick note on the tutorial. It often stops just after some vital piece of information has left the screen, and it has no 'back' button. I had to re-run it several times, and copy stuff onto paper quickly in order to extract information from it that I wanted to think about or use. </rant> Despite my complaining, thanks to those who are working on stuff like the tutorial and on this bootstrap install program. Things are better than they were when I tried OE a year ago and gave up because it was too difficult. I'm working on using OE in the CELF test lab, as the base for the test distribution used there. A contractor was able to get things working there, but he also complained about the rather high hurdle to get started with OE. I hope the feedback is helpful. BTW, I have funding I can throw at the task if someone is willing to do contract work to create an idiot-proof installer (this script is a good start but it needs to be a bit more robust). If anyone is interested in discussing the details of this, please contact me. Regards, -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics ============================= _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
