[oe] Bitbake syntax error

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Tue Aug 2 11:01:38 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 02 August 2011 02:43:05 Bernard Mentink wrote:
> I am getting the following error while trying to build the
> bootstrap-image, my bitbake is version 1.12.0.
> 
>...
> "/home/bmentink/devel/build/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/opkg-make-in
> dex", line 128
> 
> |     print pkg_dir + "/" + old_filename
> |     
> |                 ^
> | 
> | SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Someone posted this problem on IRC and eventually discovered that it was that 
/usr/bin/python was pointing to python3 (which isn't supported by BitBake). Is 
that what's happening on your system?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre




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