Our buildserver is currently running on:
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Kernel 4.15.0)
openATV 6.3 is build using oe-alliance build-environment and several git repositories:
https://github.com/oe-alliance/oe-alliance-core/tree/4.3
and a lot more...
Building Instructions
1 - Install packages on your buildserver
sudo apt-get install -y psmisc autoconf automake bison bzip2 curl cvs diffstat flex g++ gawk gcc gettext git gzip help2man ncurses-bin libncurses5-dev libc6-dev libtool make texinfo patch perl pkg-config subversion tar texi2html wget zlib1g-dev chrpath libxml2-utils xsltproc libglib2.0-dev python-setuptools zip info coreutils diffstat chrpath libproc-processtable-perl libperl4-corelibs-perl sshpass default-jre default-jre-headless java-common libserf-dev qemu quilt libssl-dev ----------
2 - Set your shell to /bin/bash.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
When asked: Install dash as /bin/sh?
select "NO"
3 - modify max_user_watches
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288, sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sysctl -n -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
4 - Add user openatvbuilder
sudo adduser openatvbuilder
5 - Switch to user openatvbuilder
su openatvbuilder
6 - Switch to home of openatvbuilder
cd ~
7 - Create folder openatv
mkdir -p ~/openatv
8 - Switch to folder openatv
cd openatv
9 - Clone oe-alliance git
git clone git://github.com/oe-alliance/build-enviroment.git -b 4.3
10 - Switch to folder build-enviroment
cd build-enviroment
11 - Update build-enviroment
make update
12 - Finally you can start building a image
MACHINE=zgemmah9combo DISTRO=openatv DISTRO_TYPE=release make image