[bitbake-devel] getting started (well, trying to)

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 18:51 -0500, Oren Leaffer wrote:

> I'm sorry if this is the wrong list to direct this question, but I'm
> having a hard time getting bitbake/openembedded building anything.
>
> Right now, "bitbake nano" fails with the error "ERROR: Unable to
> parse /home/ol/openem/openembedded/recipes/wmiconfig/wmiconfig_svn.bb
> " and then gives some more details that are at the end of this
> message.
>
> What branch of bitbake and openembedded should I be on? I've been
> trying this all day and I can find several sets of mutually
> contradictory instructions, is there an authoritative one?
> 
I'd suggest using master from openembedded-core
(http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/) with bitbake master
(http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/).

Cheers,

Richard