[oe] Bitbake build error on Fedora 12 x86 64-bit

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Koen Kooi wrote:

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> On 25-01-10 12:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> >   still working on it, but a question.  a while back, i observed
> > that one of the OE branches (stable/2009?) came with bitbake built
> > in, while the other i work with (dev) did not.  or was it the
> > other way around?  and there was some confusion as to why the
> > situation would be different between the two branches.
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> >   can i document that, no matter what branch one is working with,
> > the proper approach is to download bitbake separately and make
> > sure that's the one that's being invoked.  (i might add a short
> > side note that some branches came with bitbake built in, but users
> > should *not* take advantage of that.)
> >
> >   does that sound reasonable?
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> *If* is has bitbake builtin, users should use that one, as it is
> certain that bitbake will match the metadata. You can opt to choose
> to install a bitbake yourself, but then it's up to you to make sure
> bitbake and OE match. Since stable/2009 is a long term branch we
> decided to put bitbake in there to remove at least on point of
> failure.

  ok, i'll point that out, thanks.

rday
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