One more thing - if you prefer a tarball to git (easier on some corporate networks) the process is the same, just un-tar the tarball into a working directory and cd into the poky subdir and go from there. The tarball should be the latest stable release.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey <jeffrey.osier-mixon@...> wrote:

Hi Brian, sorry for the delay.  

If you download the poky tarball or use git to grab it and then follow the instructions on the quick-start, the tools should build automatically.  In a nutshell, try this:

git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git

cd poky

. ./oe-core-build-env

[that should put you into a build directory]

vi conf/local.conf  [set at least MACHINE, instructions in the file]

bitbake core-minimal

I hope this helps!  I'm on IRC as Jefro or available by email, let me know if I can help at all.

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Brian Duffy <brduffy@...> wrote:

Thanks for the input Jeff. I have not downloaded the tools yet. I'll probably download the tarball since I don't have much experience with git. I'll set the bbpath in local.conf and uninstall bitbake from the package manager before I do so. I guess building the tools will take care of bitbake and pseudo. Any help with how to build the tools would be appreciated, but no hurry, enjoy the holiday!

thnx

Brian

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey <jeffrey.osier-mixon@...> wrote:

Hi Brian - both bitbake and pseudo are part of the Yocto toolset. The standard bitbake from the package manager on your host is not the correct one. Make sure you have set your environment properly by sourcing the build-env script, and it should be set correctly.

As Jason says, set BBPATH in your project directory in conf/local.conf

How did you download the tools, tarball or git?  I find it easiest to do this:

git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git

Note that responses may be delayed on a US holiday weekend :)

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jason Kridner <jkridner@...> wrote:

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Brian Duffy <brduffy@...> wrote:
> Hi Yocto group. I am new to Yocto. I followed the starters guide and When
> running bitbake I get some errors. first it complains that pseudo is not
> available but required, and then it complains that bbpath is not set. What
> is pseudo?

Google should have helped you with this question:
http://www.yoctoproject.org/projects/pseudo.

I believe the primary purpose is to be able to create files with root
ownership without root access.  This is critical for building your
file system.

> I have sudo installed and setup to work for me, but I don't know
> what pseudo is. Also, bitbake was not installed on my fresh install of
> Fedora 15 so I installed it through the package manager.

I doubt you want to do that, but I don't see anything in the
instructions provided to tell you where to get it either.

> I guess that was
> not included in the packages from the getting started guide. Where do I set
> the bbpath?

Did you edit conf/local.conf?

> I followed the getting started guide and replaced the
> appropriate commands with the ones from Davids blog post for the latest
> release.
>
> thnx
> Brian
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