[oe] problems compiling glibc_2.9-r37.4 under Angstrom

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> I think these remarks come from discussion over the pandaboard u-boot
> situation? If so, let's consider these options:
>
> 1) Remove the pandaboard machine from OE since it does not build for some
> people.
>

well its a step backwards

> 2) Force Koen to update the recipe to something that builds.
>

he is master of his own time so its not right to force anybody its all
volunteer work and we should leverage each others work.

> 3) Do nothing.

Doesnt take us anywhere.

>
> No one is happy with the set of options, but the reality is some distros use
> source mirrors and do not have issues. Distros that do not use source
> mirrors are going to have problems with this and other recipes, so the onus
> is on them to resolve these issues. Resolving this is issue does not revolve
> around updating the recipe and pushing it un tested for the Panda, since
> this is not something that can be tested on another set of hardware.
>
> So until someone who has a panda and the time and patience to work with
> u-boot, minimal will not work for panda. This is because the minimal distro
> is supposed to not use advanced OE features such as source mirrors and
> PREFERRED_VERSION pinning. Because of these decisions, it is entirely
> possible that minimal will not build for all combination by design.
>

I would propose that we use angstrom-mirrors in minimal distro as a
backup to fetch
sources from.
something like this in minimal.conf would do it

SOURCE_MIRROR_URL +=
"http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/sources/"
INHERIT += "own-mirrors"

if we do not want to inherit angstrom-mirrors class directly.
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