[oe] Failed to build gpe-image ( mainstone/generic )

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 15:16 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
> > Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2006, 13:01 +0800 schrieb Axel.Lin:
> >> hi,
> >> I tried to build gpe-image with generic distro and mainstone machine
> >> setting.
> >> I got below error message.
> >> Could you kindly give me some hints to fix this?
> > 
> > I'm afraid GPE is not in the best state of maintenance in OE atm.
> > 
> > Try rebuilding (bitbake -c rebuild -b <filename) dbus 0.9x and dbus-glib
> > 0.7x, then rebuild gpe-conf. It should then pick up the new dbus
> > versions from pkgconfig. To be safe, remove
> > the old versions of dbus*.pc from PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
> 
> Is anybody still using dbus 0.23.x in .dev? I'd like to move it to packages/obsolete/dbus
> to avoid people falling in this trap over and over again. D-bus 1.0 (with a stable API) is
>  going to be released soon(TM), so people should really adapt their apps to the 0.9x (and
> thus 1.0) API.

I'd vote for removing it. Nobody should be using that now and if they
anyone does need it, we have an SCM for a reason...

One of my builds has also fallen down this hole :-(.

Cheers,

Richard