[oe] Minimal distro (was: fakeroot fails to build)

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:25:52PM +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 25.02.2009, 09:14 -0600 schrieb Mike (mwester):
> > So it sounds like there's not a libtool problem; rather I need to
> > upgrade to the new libtool entirely then. :-(   That's unfortunate,
> > really unfortunate timing -- but timing is not an OE issue. :-(
> 
> Sorry about that. I guess we really need a new stable branch.
> 
> > (BTW, the reason libtool got locked down for me is because it made
> > pkgconfig fail to build, so I might be back with questions on how to
> > make that work if that failure still exists.)
> 
> Try with pkgconfig 0.23, it works with the new libtool.
> 
> > ((Also, are there any non-angstrom distros still left in OE, besides
> > SlugOS?  I really feel like I'm swimming upstream all the time with OE
> > -- things break for me so often that just don't seem to affect anyone
> > else...))
> 
> I seriously want to revitalize the 'minimal' distro, that's why I have
> started to do some (invasive) work on improving / updating default
> versions.
> 
> As much as I love Angstrom, I think it is dangerous only to depend on
> one -- relatively complex -- distribution, since this hides all kinds of
> bugs in our metadata.
> 
> Since my time slots to work on that is also pretty limited, I'd be very
> glad if I could get some people on board to work towards this common goal:
> Providing a distribution with minimal policies and default settings that
> serves as a starting point for new distros.
> 
> Can I count on you?

As someone else who depends on !Angstrom working, I'll volunteer to try
and help the minimal distro keep working.  I assume making sure
icecc.bbclass works with minimal is OK :)

-- 
Tom Rini