[oe] Does the OS make a difference?

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, AJ ONeal <coolaj86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The way that I understand it, OE natively compiles everything it needs for
> cross-compiling everything the target needs - perl, python, etc.

not everything but things that it needs different from native ones. It
still uses lot of
the packages installed on build host.

>
> However, I hear people using Ubuntu 10.04 say that they don't have problems
> building the same thing that I'm building.
>

could be. I don't know what your problem is.

> Is that just random happenstance or is there something about the OS that
> would make successful builds more likely?
>
> It would be worth it to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 10.04 if it really makes
> a difference... but it would take time and disrupt workflow and otherwise
> provide little advantage.
>
> AJ ONeal
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