Linux Essentials course, build errors

[boikhutso]

I am starting Linux Essentials and I run into problems when running bitbake <target> .
I am getting ../recipes-dev-tools/m4/m4-native_1.4.17bb, do_compile failed with exit code '1' error. Do you have an idea of what the problem might be? I am running UBUNTU 20.04LTS, have tried several distributions as well but still run into the same problem. Please point me in the right direction. Thanks

[robertferanec]

Please, you will need to use the Ubuntu version which is recommended (I think is 14.2 (?)) ,otherwise you may have a lot of problems.

[boikhutso]

Hi Robert, thanks for the response.I will try Ubuntu 14.2. It says on the yocto website the supported distributions are:

• Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS)
• Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS)
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Fedora 30
• Fedora 31
• Fedora 32
• CentOS 7.x
• CentOS 8.x
• Debian GNU/Linux 8.x (Jessie)
• Debian GNU/Linux 9.x (Stretch)
• Debian GNU/Linux 10.x (Buster)
• OpenSUSE Leap 15.1

I have tried Debian 9, Ubuntu 20.04,16, Fedora 32.

[robertferanec]

You need to follow the NXP documentation, not the yocto one.