getting bash on Edison.....OK lets see if I remember it all..
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 recomended.. 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