Build Environment openSUSE 11.0

Be sure that the followings are installed on your system:

• gcc
• patch
• help2man
• diffstat
• texinfo
• ncurses-devel
• cvs
• gawk
• sqlite3
• sqlite3-devel

openSUSE 11.0 and above comes with Python 2.6+ installed. So you'll need to remove it and install an older version of Python.

mkdir python
cd python
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.4/Python-2.5.4.tgz
tar xzfv Python-2.5.4.tgz
cd Python-2.5.4
./configure
make
make install

Install pysqlite:

wget http://oss.itsystementwicklung.de/download/pysqlite/2.4/2.4.1/pysqlite-2.4.1.tar.gz
tar xzfv pysqlite-2.4.1.tar.gz
cd pysqlite-2.4.1
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

Now you're ready for building gumstix-oe pack. Checkuot the sources from svn:

$ mkdir ~/gumstix 
$ cd ~/gumstix 
$ svn co http://gumstix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gumstix/trunk gumstix-oe

Gumstix OE requires some environment setup in order to function properly. There are a couple of ways to handle this requirement.

$ cat gumstix-oe/extras/profile >> ~/.bashrc

First we create a new group called oe and add your login account to the oe group. In the second command be sure to substitute your login user name where your_username is indicated.

$ sudo groupadd oe
$ sudo usermod -G oe your_username

Next we create the directory for the source code cache, set the group owner to the newly created oe group, and finally set permissions on the directory:

$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chgrp oe /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chmod 0775 /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chmod ug+s /usr/share/sources

Now relogin for letting the profile take effect.

Build the OE gumstix image:

$ bitbake gumstix-basic-image