C Robinson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeking some clarification on a few points. The background is > that I have some software I need to install which requires Xenomai on > Ubuntu. Being fairly recent on the Linux scene, following the > installation guide for Xenomai has been something of a voyage of > exploration, as yet unfinished - and somewhat more complicated as I'm > doing this on a bootable usb key. > > In any case, a colleague mentioned there was an easier way using the > available packages in the Ubuntu repositories, i.e. the > xenomai-runtime and associated packages. It was implied that with a > straight-forward 'aptitude install xenomai-runtime' and voila I have > a RTOS ready to use. Given the descriptions of these packages (and > no mention of patching of the kernel for example), I don't think that > this is their purpose, particularly when I tried downloading the > xenomai examples where the second step is : > > make XENO=<xenomai-installation-path> KSRC=<xenomai-kernel-source> > > Could someone confirm (or refute) this suspicion (that the packages > do not provide access to a RTOS) and perhaps explain the intended use > of the xenomai packages available on the ubuntu repositories - I've > not seen any detailed reference as to why one would download and > install these packages (say, in addition to having already gone > through the long process of kernel patching + compilation + user > space setup). > > Thanks for any assistance, Charles
See: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/Building_Debian_packages Please pay attention to the version of the packages available on Ubuntu. As far as I understood, they are outdated, so, you would probably better use the Debian package and install them on Ubuntu. -- Gilles. _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list Xenomai-help@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
