Re: OpenEmbedded
Wow. Apparenty y'all are not referring to building the OpenEmbedded
development environment, but the image itself?
I'd understood that config is difficult, but at least I'd be beyond
establishing the development environment.
Studying pbuilder now, which invokes debootstrap and apt. Cdebootstrap seems
to be a more primitive incantation of debootstrap. Also learning about
OpenEmbedded.
Carl Cook
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 3:47, Mathias Lewin wrote:
>
> I agree - I just had a 14-something hour build fail on my AMD64 1.5G RAM
machine.
> The build process is really a CM issue, since it's very difficult to know
what
> really is pulled into the build. So far I have to look at the post-build
forensics.
>
> The problem(s) as I see them are:
>
> - build configuration too complex (or: a _real_ challenge to a CM ;)
> - build performance s-l-o-w
>
> best,
>
> Mathias
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: debian-embedded-request@lists.debian.org
> [mailto:debian-embedded-request@lists.debian.org]On Behalf Of Philippe
> De Swert
> Sent: den 1 februari 2005 12:15
> To: Info
> Cc: debian-embedded
> Subject: Re:OpenEmbedded
>
>
> Hello Carl,
>
> > Has anyone tried OpenEmbedded?
>
> Yes I have. And basically I can say it works. But is pretty hard to setup.
The
> initial setup is ok, and nicely explained on their wiki. And luckiley their
> cvs snapshots are working again too (bitkeeper closed source versioning is
no
> good...) Unfortunately the building of the images and packages breaks very,
> very easily. Sources disappear from servers, are not mirrored anymore, the
> patches don't apply anymore. Basically one small error can fuck up an 6-7
hour
> build on a fast machine. (This is on my dual Xeon 3Ghz workstation with 1GB
> RAM, on my old AMD XP2800+ it took about 12h to do something similar for
> another device). Anyway before you have one working build you spend about 3
> days, and after that you have to be very careful about updating, because you
> risk to break the builds again. But I think it is one of the best things
that
> are available for the moment.
>
> > Seems Wookey has used it for ages, and the Familiar project has adopted it
now.
>
> As far as I know Wookey has been using it, but is not very enthousiastic
about
> it. But I cannot speak for him, but this is the impression I got. Familiar
has
> indeed adopted it for building their distribution.
>
> I haven't found out yet how they decide which packages are included in their
> builds, but I preferred to work on Emdebian stuff, so we can finally start
> thinking about building something. It might be documented somewhere but I
> haven't got time to find everything out.
>
> regards,
>
> Philippe
>
>
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