Hello,
It did work and when it did not work I tried this another machine that is has already produced images using TI/yocto builds and it too fails.
~/tisdk/build$ MACHINE=am62-evm bitbake -k tisdk-base-image
ERROR: Unable to start bitbake server (None)
ERROR: Server log for this session (/home/fred/tisdk/build/bitbake-cookerdaemon.log):
--- Starting bitbake server pid 2657 at 2023-04-14 09:23:49.908110 ---
ERROR: Failed to obtain external Arm toolchain version: Execution of '${DEF_TOOLCHAIN_PATH}/bin/INVALID-linux-gcc -v' failed: command not found
ERROR: Failed to obtain external Arm toolchain version: Execution of '${DEF_TOOLCHAIN_PATH}/bin/INVALID-linux-gcc -v' failed: command not found
ERROR: Error: EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN path '${DEF_TOOLCHAIN_PATH}' does not exist