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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 March 2012 17:33:18 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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.h
> > tml
> >
> > is there any automated way to check for this?  is there any OE/bitbake
> > equivalent to "please check that all necessary commands are
> > installed"?
>
> There are checks performed within sanity.bbclass to ensure the availability of
> all of these commands, so this happens automatically the first time a build is
> run.

  ok, and i can point out that that checking is already "require"d by
the default bitbake.conf file.  thanks.

rday

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