From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [130.89.2.9] (helo=smtp.utwente.nl) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HMM5V-0003yK-5D for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:31:20 +0100 Received: from [172.20.1.5] (dominion.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.193.158]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l1SAV5ox012661 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:31:05 +0100 Message-ID: <45E559E9.4040302@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:31:05 +0100 From: Koen Kooi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org References: <200702281109.25161.ranaldo@unina.it> <1172658483.16062.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1172658483.16062.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2 X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: koen@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: OE and the developing host X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:31:28 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:31:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Purdie schreef: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:09 +0100, Nicola Ranaldo wrote: >> I use OE on a gentoo box. This morning i updated the system, and the new >> linux-headers package removed /usr/include/asm/page.h. So when building my >> angstrom image it failed with perl asking to include that file. This problem >> was discussed on the gentoo bug and after applying a simple workaround i was >> able to emerge perl on the gentoo box and perl native on OE. >> After a while the oe build stopped on esound, this was caused by a malfunction >> of /usr/lib/libosp.so.5 on gentoo, i reemerged it and solved the problem. Now >> the armstrong-gpe-image is complete. But this introduced a doubt. OE build >> some tools directly, and use other directly from the build host, so it could >> be teoretically possible to produce different images on different host. Is >> there a way or a plan to avoid it and make OE build host independant >> (supposing i was correct)? If not, what's the most used/supported distro by >> OE developers? > > *-native packages can touch things on the system, any other packages > shouldn't and if they were found to be, it would be a bug and should be > fixed. > > Its never going to be possible to make make OE build everything it needs > itself since you always need some prerequisites (e.g. a initial > toolchain). > > Personally, I use OE/Poky on Ubuntu and Slackware. There are others > using Gentoo and other systems. Ideally it should work on most systems, > you might see problems with -native packages, you shouldn't see problems > with non -native ones. OpenSuSE should work as well, but stay away from Red Hat/Fedora based stuff, since you can't build a working qemu-native on that. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFF5VnpMkyGM64RGpERAv6GAKCNnttrwbzw6UWN0URB+qn0Q8d6SQCggB8s QBxJdxBCXm9FOkjUjGcQ0Xc= =opJZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----