[OE-core] [dylan] Backport request

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Jack Mitchell <ml at communistcode.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 14/03/2014 18:57, Saul Wold wrote:
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>> On 03/14/2014 11:34 AM, Paul Barker wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>> Can't you use the buildtools tarball?  It includes the right version of
>> make and git.
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>
> Indeed, this is what I do on my ArchLinux machines when something is too
> new; it's just a simple sourcing of an environment file before the build and
> you're good to go.

build system underneath might still inject bugs into your cross build
even though you got it building.