[OE-core] [dylan] Backport request

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> On 14 March 2014 18:37, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
>>> I'm stuck using Dylan for a project as I need a 3.2 series kernel.
>>> Building on my current development machine I ran into two failures:
>>>
>>> eglibc-initial, do_configure: Make 4.0 isn't recognised
>>>
>>> This can be fixed by backporting
>>> a678243d6e4add90c1e9459da42de34d3724db5d (already in Dora).
>>>
>>> linux-yocto_3.2: do_patch: Unsupported version of git (1.9.0)
>>>
>>> I fixed this by removing git-native from ASSUME_PROVIDED in
>>> meta/conf/bitbake.conf so that git-native-1.8.1.4 was built and used.
>>> That isn't something we should commit in Dylan but may be useful for
>>> others to know the solution if they run into the same problem.
>>
>> I think if you also lock your build machine OS along with yocto
>> release, it is less painful.
>
> It is definitely less painful. I'm lacking the spare hardware though
> and I want to avoid building inside a VM if I can as I'll be limited
> on how much RAM I can allocate to it and I think the performance will
> take a hit. Thankfully this project isn't far off end-of-life now.

I use containers. systemd-nspawn goes long way