[oe] any ETA on a working dev beagleboard demo image?

[John (GMail)]

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> Robert P. J. Day
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> Subject: [oe] any ETA on a working dev beagleboard demo image?
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> 
>   yes, i know i'm sounding like a broken record, but i have an invite
> to give a short local demo of the beagleboard this tuesday and i'd
> like to do it with an angstrom development demo image, just because i
> prefer to live out there on the edge.
> 
>   at the moment, there is just the one package standing in the way --
> guile-native -- and as i recall, someone posted what looked like a
> manual fix.  is that being turned into a patch at any point?  i
> realize i'm nagging, but it's literally been *weeks* since that
> particular bitbake target actually built, and every time it looks like
> it's getting close to being buildable, more packages break.
> 
>   i appreciate that development means exactly that but, at the very
> least, even the development branch should *build*, even if there are
> run issues.
I also had problems building the DEV branch, but as of yesterday,
beagleboard-demo-image builds without errors on Ubuntu 9.10. I was having
problems with webkit-gtk, but Koen released a fix on Saturday and now the
build completes successfully.
> 
> rday
> 
> p.s.  perhaps it would be useful to start tagging the development
> branch at points where it builds, just so someone can always retreat
> to the most recent known good build.
> 
> or perhaps start a branch named, oh, "bleeding", which, when it builds
> properly, can be merged back into development.  whatever.  but it
> strikes me that it's overwhelmingly pointless to have a development
> branch that doesn't build since that gives no one the opportunity to
> actually test it.
> 
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