[oe] ti_cgt_c6000_6.1.17_setup_linux_x86.bin error while installing ti-codec-engine

[Michael Poole]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2011-09-23 14:46, Michael Poole wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> Check to make sure that you don't have write permission to /opt
>>> If you have write permission in the directory /opt, the installer
>>> fails to put the tools where they belong in your OE build.
>>
>> Is it generally known that this limitation is due to a bug in
>> ti-eula-unpack.inc?  (Python's print automatically adds a newline,
>> which the code's author apparently did not expect.)  My local repo has
>> these changes to allow in-tree installs by users with write access to
>> /opt; please pardon Gmail's mangling of leading whitespace:
>
> I don't know if this is a generally known fact; it should be, I reported it
> to
> this list more than a year ago and was basically ignored [actually told I
> just
> shouldn't have write access to /opt so the issue was my own fault...]
>
> Does the unpack work with your patches if /opt is not writeable?

Yes, it does.  (It took a few days for me to find time to do a clean
rebuild on a system where I didn't need write access to /opt.)

Michael Poole