[OE-core] [dylan] Backport request

Paul Barker paul at paulbarker.me.uk
Fri Mar 14 19:11:11 UTC 2014


On 14 March 2014 19:06, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>
> Yeah, containers (systemd-nspawn, docker) or even a chroot can be
> invaluable. schroot on a debian machine works quite well too for something
> as simple as builds. I end up aliasing bb and bitbake to transparently run
> in the chroot at all times.

It's time I learnt how to use these newfangled containers then...

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
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