[oe] ERROR: Please set the 'PERSISTENT_DIR

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/6/8 Soumya R <Soumya.R at kpitcummins.com>:
> Hi All ,
>
>   I am getting the error while configuring the bitbake
> [root at fedora12 bitbake-1.8.18]# bitbake nano
> ERROR: Please set the 'PERSISTENT_DIR' or 'CACHE' variable.
> I got the sources of the bitbake and gave following commands
> python setup.py build
> python setup.py install
>
>  Please help me out to resolve this error..

I suggest following the instructions:
http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_Started
guess your local.conf is not ok or not present at all.
Google has plenty of pages on this (and some actually carry answers :-) )

FM