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

[Michael Poole]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2011-09-28 08:58, Michael Poole wrote:
>>
>> 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.)
>
> Thanks for checking.
>
> Will you push these changes into meta-texasinstruments (please)?

Yes, I can check it against that and submit a patch.  I have been
using OE-classic to date, so it might take a bit for me to get that
build right.

Michael Poole