[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3 v2] sanity.bbclass: Check for the known broken version of make

[Trevor Woerner]

On 19 July 2013 05:41, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 July 2013 16:14:55 Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> On 8 July 2013 17:55, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>> > For anyone with an old or broken system, they will need to download (or
>> > build) the buildtools..
>> > install it and have it in their path prior to running oe-core.
>>
>> Does a download location already exist with downloads available for
>> people who receive this error when building? If so, could it be made
>> part of the error message? Or maybe instead of asking people to use a
>> working version of "make" the error message could instruct them to use
>> one of these buildtools-tarball SDKs (and provide instructions for
>> doing so)?
>
> According to Beth, the current (nightly build) can be found here:
>
>  http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/nightly/CURRENT/buildtools/
>
> Location for the upcoming 1.5 release when that is available:
>
>  http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.5/buildtools/
>
> The tricky part is we don't have a solid location yet, only one being built
> from master. Perhaps we could link to an intermediary page with explanatory
> text that can link to the appropriate location.


That would be quite helpful, and maybe even help people to help
themselves should they come across this problem when trying to build.