[oe] disapprove 9cdbd45b5ff507c6e00fc91c08ec5e17929302f4

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at vanille-media.de
Tue Aug 26 12:28:20 UTC 2008


Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 13:22:32 schrieb Rolf Leggewie:
> Koen,
>
> may I suggest that instead of screaming "bogus" at the top of your lungs
> all the time and thus discrediting your fellow contributors' work you
> start pitching in with quality assurance?  There sure are an awful lot
> of stale bugs and unbuildable stuff in OE.
>
> I am well aware that COMPATIBLE_MACHINE in the definition of fso-image
> is not the best solution.  At the current state of affairs, it is
> correct though.  The image relies on $XSERVER which is not defined for
> all machines in OE.  Those machines are incompatible with that image
> definition.
>
> You're heartily invited to help fix OE to have a sane default for
> $XSERVER for *all* machines.  I've started work on this but have not yet
> finished.  Until that is done, removing compatible machine from the
> image definition is a step backwards which is why I have disapproved
> commit 9cdbd45b5ff507c6e00fc91c08ec5e17929302f4.

Well, in this case I agree with Koen.  COMPATIBLE_MACHINE should never appear 
in an image recipe, e.g. I used to happily build fso-image for the Motorola 
EZX series and now i can no longer.

Lets fix the XServer issue instead.

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