Hi,
I am working under Gentoo Linux using the commandline and platformio core. I don’t like IDEs that much,
which a personal thing… 
In an empty directory I submitted this command:
platformio project init --ide vim --board esp-wrover-kit --project-option “framework=espidf”
and got this output:
The current working directory /home/user/PLATFORMIO/ESP32/ESPIDF/I2S/examples/step_001 will be used for the project.
The next files/directories have been created in /home/user/PLATFORMIO/ESP32/ESPIDF/I2S/examples/step_001
include - Put project header files here
lib - Put here project specific (private) libraries
src - Put project source files here
platformio.ini - Project Configuration File
Error: Processing esp-wrover-kit (platform: espressif32; board: esp-wrover-kit; framework: espidf)
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Verbose mode can be enabled via `-v, --verbose` option
CONFIGURATION: https://docs.platformio.org/page/boards/espressif32/esp-wrover-kit.html
PLATFORM: Espressif 32 (2.1.0) > Espressif ESP-WROVER-KIT
HARDWARE: ESP32 240MHz, 320KB RAM, 4MB Flash
DEBUG: Current (ftdi) On-board (ftdi) External (esp-prog, iot-bus-jtag, jlink, minimodule, olimex-arm-usb-ocd, olimex-arm-usb-ocd-h, olimex-arm-usb-tiny-h, olimex-jtag-tiny, tumpa)
PACKAGES:
- framework-espidf 3.40100.200827 (4.1.0)
- tool-cmake 3.16.4
- tool-esptoolpy 1.30000.201119 (3.0.0)
- tool-ninja 1.7.1
- toolchain-esp32ulp 1.22851.191205 (2.28.51)
- toolchain-xtensa32 2.80200.200827 (8.2.0)
Installing ESP-IDF's Python dependencies
**ERROR: (Gentoo) Please run pip with the --user option to avoid breaking python-exec**
** *** Error 1**
Reading CMake configuration...
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.29.2")
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 8.2.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 8.2.0
-- The ASM compiler identification is GNU
-- Found assembler: /home/user/.platformio/packages/toolchain-xtensa32/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /home/user/.platformio/packages/toolchain-xtensa32/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /home/user/.platformio/packages/toolchain-xtensa32/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /home/user/.platformio/packages/toolchain-xtensa32/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-g++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /home/user/.platformio/packages/toolchain-xtensa32/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-g++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Project is not inside a git repository, or git repository has no commits; will not use 'git describe' to determine PROJECT_VER.
-- Project version: 1
-- Building ESP-IDF components for target esp32
-- Checking Python dependencies...
The following Python requirements are not satisfied:
future>=0.15.2
cryptography>=2.1.4
pyparsing>=2.0.3,<2.4.0
Please follow the instructions found in the "Set up the tools" section of ESP-IDF Getting Started Guide
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/user/PLATFORMIO/ESP32/ESPIDF/I2S/examples/step_001/.pio/build/esp-wrover-kit/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
CMake Error at /home/user/.platformio/packages/framework-espidf/tools/cmake/build.cmake:271 (message):
Some Python dependencies must be installed. Check above message for
details.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/home/user/.platformio/packages/framework-espidf/tools/cmake/build.cmake:397 (__build_check_python)
/home/user/.platformio/packages/framework-espidf/tools/cmake/project.cmake:396 (idf_build_process)
CMakeLists.txt:3 (project)
========================================================================================================= [FAILED] Took 0.81 seconds =========================================================================================================
[1] 80321 exit 1 platformio project init --ide vim --board esp-wrover-kit --project-option
The problem seems to arise with this line:
ERROR: (Gentoo) Please run pip with the --user option to avoid breaking python-exec
in which the installed “pip” demands to install everything local to the user to avoid to alter the systems installation of python.
How can I avoid this problem?
Cheers!
mcc