[OE-core] verifying all necessary OE-related software on your dev host

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> $ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core oe-core
> $ cd oe-core
> $ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake bitbake
>
> the only thing a beginner might want to do is check that the dev host
> has all essential S/W for OE work.  i know that's documented in the
> yocto QS guide here:
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html
>
> is there any automated way to check for this?  is there any OE/bitbake
> equivalent to "please check that all necessary commands are
> installed"?
>
>  is there anything else at all that a user might want to verify
> before starting to build their first image?   nothing leaps to mind,
> but i just want to make sure i'm not missing anything.

The sanity bbclass checks for most things already, at least if you get
past the initial setup and can actually run bitbake :) Which doesn't
require much, other than configuration and python 2.6 or newer as
'python'.
-- 
Christopher Larson