RDK-B Raspberrypi : Yocto Build Instructions

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Host Setup

The OpenEmbedded build system should be able to run on any modern distribution with the following versions for tar, and Python.

• tar 1.24 or greater.

• Python 2.7.3 or greater excluding Python 3.x, which is not supported.

Pre-Requisites

Install the following packages for setting up your host VM

The instructions provided below are meant to be executed via the command line on an Ubuntu machine:

$         sudo apt-get   install     build-essential gettext bison libfile-slurp-perl gawk libncurses-dev autoconf flex doxygen libtool automake   libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev subversion minicom putty libssl-dev rpm python-pexpect python-svn python-argparse vim tofrodos meld dos2unix cmake uuid-dev ruby transfig libglib2.0-dev xutils-dev lynx-cur gperf autopoint   python-dulwich   python-dev curl vim diffstat texinfo chrpath   openjdk-7-jre

Note : Please note openjdk-7-jre package is not available for Ubuntu-16.04 anymore. Presumably openjdk-8-jre should be used instead.

Configure bash as default command interpreter for shell scripts

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Select “No”
To choose bash, when the prompt asks if you want to use dash as the default system shell - select “No”

Configure Git

Upgrade your Git version to 1.8.x or higher

On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, if you are unable to upgrade your git version using apt-get, then follow the below steps in order to upgrade  

$       sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

$       sudo add-apt-repository   ppa:git-core/ppa

$       sudo apt-get update

$       sudo apt-get install git

  Once git is installed, configure your name and email using the below commands

$ git config --global user.email " you@example.com "

$  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Repo setup

             In order to install Repo make sure you have a /bin directory in your home directory and that it is included in your path

Repo Setup Steps

Note: it is also recommended to put credentials in .netrc when interacting with repo.

A sample .netrc file is illustrated below

.netrc