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

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

[taken the board off cc as this has nothing to do with my original
request to the board]

2011/1/22 Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>>
>

Khem, this is not about panda uboot, but about the behaviour of
members towards others.

As far as u-boot and panda concerns. I don't care any more.
If that is the way TI employees want to support their customers, it is
their choice, not mine.

Wrt the source mirror.
I would suggest to use http://sources.openembedded.org/ as official OE
mirror. We could use the angstrom mirror as starting point to further
populate the OE mirror. Alternately I have a fair amount of tarballs
etc that I can contribute (also some for the older days, but none
related to opie like things) And of course someone could also do a
fetchall or so (I seem to recall Martin already did soemthing like
that in the past)

Best regards, Frans.