Saturday, October 30, 2010

Re: [nslu2-linux] Re: Cross-compile toolchain

 

Thanks a bunch for the direction! Probably saved me a lot of pain in the process.

I'll try and give it a go with the latest snapshot and tweak the OE build to see how it goes.

-H

--- On Sun, 31/10/10, Mike Westerhof <mwester@dls.net> wrote:

From: Mike Westerhof <mwester@dls.net>
Subject: Re: [nslu2-linux] Re: Cross-compile toolchain
To: nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, 31 October, 2010, 12:00 AM

 

Steve wrote:
> Well... It appears that it is broken with a python global name 'msg' not defined. I 'updated' a previous build directory on Ubuntu 10.04 and managed to break it too. When it works, it is amazing but I suspect it lacks maintenance these days.
>

You'll need a build host who age matches the 5.3 SlugOS release --
basically, the host tools (compilers, libraries, python, etc) have all
changed in ways incompatible with the Openembedded build tools from that
era.

If you're using ubuntu, I'd go back to one of the 09.xx releases, or
even the 08.xx releases (with no updates applied) and try that. For
Fedora users, I would suggest something in the range of Fedora 9 to
perhaps Fedora 11 might work.

You *could* try to fix up the recipes and python libraries that make up
the OE build tool -- cherry pick patches from the latest Openembedded
GIT repo -- but the OE folks have dropped support for a lot of the
cross-compilation tools we used with SlugOS 5.3, so that approach is
unlikely to work very well. I can tell you that selecting a snapshot
from last November of the OE build system will get you a SlugOS
5.4-alpha that worked very nicely indeed. In fact, if my job situation
hadn't changed so dramatically last December, I would have released
SlugOS 5.4-beta at the end of December... c'est la vie.

-Mike (mwester)

> Steve
>
> --- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, Harsh <harshbaste@...> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm looking for instructions on how to setup a cross-compile toolchain for the NSLU2 for SlugOS 5.3 BE. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on my PC and found native compiling too painful to use so decided with this instead, but cant find much recent info on it. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> H
>>
>>


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