Bitbake error: cannot find generic.conf

[James Mills]

Joost,

Unless told otherwise, OE will generate the proper cross compilation
environment for you prior to building your first package.  I always
run "bitbake nano" as my first bitbake task, ad the nano package is
preceded by tons of native and cross tool creation.

There are methods to override this cross compilation step, using the
ASSUME_PROVIDED mechanisms, but for most OE systems this is not
needed.

Of course, you will need to have a compiler on your system in order to
generate the cross compiler, etc, but that is covered in the  setup
documentation.

Hope that helps!
~james

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Joost Meijles <joostmeijles at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi James and others,
>
> Thanks James, that did the trick!
>
> Something that I don't quite well understand yet is the following: when I build using OE I still have to install the correct cross-compiler by my self?
> OE does not provide any mechanism to create the cross-compiler? We I started to read about OE, I understood that it would provide me with the correct cross-compiler.
>
> Can someone clarify this for me?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Joost
>
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