[oe] Is bitbake 1.10 the latest stable version?

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 08:53:15 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>       If you ask me, updating bitbake and openembedded is bound to cause problems !
>
> I was running bitbake 1.8 and oe from about 3 months ago, but when I tried updating it to bitbake 1.10 and did an update of my oe repo, I had failures for glibc,  complaining about LD_LIBRARY_PATH being set to the current directory.
>
> It is not the first time that this is happening, everytime you do an update of the oe repository, things start going wrong and you usually have to spend a whole week trying to fix things.
>
> Luckily for me, I had a backup copy of my Fedora 12 x86 64-bit virtual machine, and now have switch to the older repository and working revision.
>
> The resulting outputs of the OE build system are reproduceable, but OE behaviour by itself  across revisions is not.

if you use development branch then be ready to bear these kind of
issues occasionally otherwise use stable branch and in general OE
master is a lot better in consistency compared to many other projects

>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson
>
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