Gary, If you give me a few hours I'll generate the proper tarball for you. I've upgraded the release process to include a i386 host tarball from now on.
I'll send you the link when I have it done. -b On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Gary Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-12-12 09:37, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> >> On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:31:10 Gary Thomas wrote: >>> >>> On 2013-12-12 09:28, Gary Thomas wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2013-12-12 09:20, Paul Eggleton wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Gary, >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday 12 December 2013 08:06:31 Gary Thomas wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I've found that the latest bitbake fetcher changes (require >>>>>> the use of branch names) fails with older versions of git. >>>>>> I have a Fedora 13 machine which I routinely use to build >>>>>> my Yocto projects that has git version 1.7.7.6. On that machine, >>>>>> all git fetches fail, no matter what. On my Ubuntu builder >>>>>> which has git 1.7.9.4, all is OK. >>>>>> >>>>>> I see that there is a git recipe in OE-core. How can I force >>>>>> it to be built and used where the host's native git is inadequate? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The solution we provide for this kind of situation is >>>>> buildtools-tarball, >>>>> as described here (linked from the QS guide as well): >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#requi >>>>> red-git-tar-and-python-versions> >>>> >>>> Thanks, I'll give this a go. >>> >>> >>> Oops, looks like I have a circular dependency problem since trying to >>> make >>> the buildtools-tarball actually needs a working version of git?? >> >> >> I don't think it's reasonable to expect to build buildtools-tarball on a >> system that isn't capable of building at the moment; you should just >> download >> a prebuilt version as linked from the manual section above *or* build it >> on >> another machine. > > > Too bad that pointer is only for x86_64 hosts (mine is i386 only) > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Gary Thomas | Consulting for the > MLB Associates | Embedded world > ------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- Elizabeth Flanagan Yocto Project Build and Release _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
