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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-12-01 17:34:01 -0700
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2015-01-14 21:16:53 -0800
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buildman: Add a note about Python pre-requisites
Since we need a few modules which might not be available in a bare-bones distribution, add a note about that to the README. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Suggested-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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@@ -171,7 +171,16 @@ The toolchain-alias section indicates that the i386 toolchain should be used
to build x86 commits.
-2. Check the available toolchains
+3. Make sure you have the require Python pre-requisites
+
+Buildman uses multiprocessing, Queue, shutil, StringIO and ConfigParser.
+These should normally be available, but if you get an error like this then
+you will need to obtain those modules:
+
+ ImportError: No module named multiprocessing
+
+
+4. Check the available toolchains
Run this check to make sure that you have a toolchain for every architecture.