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https://communities.intel.com/message/255230#255230
Edit[#1 if all you want is bash then go get it from the package repo ]
here: https://communities.intel.com/message/254806
I want to run clojure on the edison It relies on Leiningen pkg manager that needs the bash shell to install. The default yocto image does not have bash
I'm sure you could use opk to install bash compiled on the Edison sdk. but I have not learned that yet...
This method rebuilds the entire Yocto image just to add one tool, bash, to that image. I have other tools I want to add, HTOP, nano and this is a way for me to progress towards my own custom image with all my needs installed
getting bash on Edison....
All of my build problems were solved by building using a FRESH 64 bit Ubuntu VM.
I started with a Fresh 64 bit VM of Ubuntu 14.04 ( Virtualbox Running under windows, highly recommended.. except for USB issues mentioned below)
added these packages ( not sure if all are needed... but hey it worked)
$ sudo apt-get install sed wget cvs subversion git-core coreutils \
unzip texi2html texinfo libsdl1.2-dev docbook-utils gawk \
python-pysqlite2 diffstat help2man make gcc build-essential \
g++ desktop-file-utils chrpath libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
mercurial autoconf automake groff libtool xterm
I used the edison linux source for the build from this page
This gets the file
edison-src-weekly-68.tgz
Follow the instructions below to get a clean build of the unmodified Yocto image, then flash it and test it on the Edison to be sure it boots
Re: Sharing information about compiling Edison OS with Yocto.
Please note that the page refers to /poly and that should be /poky
don't forget to always do the line below in a new shell to get the environment set before you run bitbake
cd ~/edison/edison-src/poky
source poky/oe-init-build-env
cd ~/edison/edison-src/build
bitbake edison-image
I found that I had to rerun bitbake several times if my slow internet conneciton timed out on a file download
It seems that bitbake does not really try that hard if a site is down or busy..
This takes 6hrs on my "quad core" non intel machine. It might be faster on genuine Intel
cd ~/edison/edison-src/device-software/utils/flash
./postBuild.sh
./flashall.sh --keep-data
Note: when running the flashall script, you can pass it the --keep-data option to preserve your /home flash partition
I Keep all my personal programs and data in /home/root and with the --keep-data option , it is not erased when a new image is loaded
Log into the image on the serial port (usb) as root
( use df -k to make sure that the image does not use up too much space on /dev/root) I think this is 360Meg for my image with bash added
root@Edison1:~/clojure/clojure-1.6.0# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 475080 360664 77720 82% /
devtmpfs 491708 0 491708 0% /dev
Once that image works, now we need to add the bash shell to the local.conf and re-run bitbake
go to ~/edison-src/build/conf/
edit the file local.conf
add the Bold line below to the end of the local.conf file
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " bash"
Rebuild... this will only take 10 minutes or so
cd ~/edison/edison-src/poky
source poky/oe-init-build-env
cd ~/edison/edison-src/build
bitbake edison-image
It should load the files from for bash and then build it and then build a new image
cd ~/edison/edison-src/device-software/utils/flash
./postBuild.sh
./flashall.sh --keep-data
Note: I cannot get USB to work from within a VM. So the ./flashall.sh will not work for me.
I move the toflash directory to a shared folder in the host windows File sysytem and the run flashall.bat from a
DOS shell
log into the image and see if /bin/bash exists...
/bin/bash
With bash and Java 7-067 downloaded I was able to get clojure and Leiningen to run on Edison!!
Now to try Functional Programming in the small.
Dave