On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Chris Elston <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just getting started with oe (specifically oe-core) and ran into a > confusing problem that took me a minute or two to sort out. > > The instructions here (which I think are for oe, not core) > http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/OEandYourDistro don't mention that > you need mercurial, whereas the page here: > http://www.openembedded.org/index.php/Required_software > does.
that page needs updating > > I believe that this doesn't matter for oe because it has the > mercurial-native recipe, but this isn't the case for oe-core. > > Admittedly sanity.bbclass does check for the presence of hg and warn > that it's missing. I initially didn't see this message and as far as I > could tell my bitbake command returned success having only built the > native recipes. > > So the question is, does the OEandYourDistro page need updating for > oe-core? In which case, where do I request a wiki account to do so? yes send request to Tom King. account creation is protected for spamming reasons. Or > alternatively, should oe-core include the mercurial-native recipe to > cover this case? Discuss :-) > Well it can but usually OE does not need a captive version of mercurial so it can use the one installed on the build machine. > Cheers, > > Chris. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
