Hey Dick, I implemented a --without-random-device option in ./configure. It's in the following beta release:
http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.8.8.beta2.tar.gz Could you check it out and see if it works for you. Thanks, Al On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 11:57 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, > > Cross-posting to -devel since this issue hits how the configure script > is written. > > FWIW, I'm finding some discussion about the use of the AC_CHECK_FILE > macro in autoconf scripts. At the very end of configure.ac are two > calls to AC_CHECK_FILE. This macro is written to produce an error if > invoked while cross-compiling (which is what I am doing). > > Our build server does not have random or urandom but our target > environment does. Wonder if this can be fixed by trying to find them > on the staged target system? > > In the meantime, I'll see if we can't get random and urandom on our > build machine. > > Thanks, > Dick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Albert Chu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:25 PM > To: Detweiler, Dick [NETPWR/AVOCENT/AL] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Freeipmi-users] bitbake recipe? > > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 11:09 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > Thanks for the response Al. I went ahead and started a recipe off > of > > other similar packages in our environment. Configure is reporting > > this error: > > > > checking for /dev/urandom... configure: error: cannot check for file > > existence when cross compiling > > > > Is this something I can get around with an env variable or option > > passed into configure? > > Hmmm. This is definitely new to me. I can only assume it's something > unique for your embedded environment (other folks that have done some > embedded porting have not hit this). > > I could make a configure option to turn off checks for this. > > Al > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Albert Chu [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:07 PM > > To: Detweiler, Dick [NETPWR/AVOCENT/AL] > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] bitbake recipe? > > > > Hi Dick, > > > > I don't know of one personally. I know nothing about BitBake, other > > than the fact it is based on Gentoo's Portage. I know that FreeIPMI > has > > been packaged for Gentoo, so I'm not sure if that's a good starting > > point or not. > > > > Al > > > > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 10:41 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am wanting to include some of the freeipmi tools into an Open > > > Embedded system. Is there a bitbake recipe out there already or > will > > > I need to generate one myself? Googled for it without success. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Dick Detweiler |Senior Software Engineer, MSD | Avocent | USA > > > Emerson Network Power | 4991 Corporate Drive | Huntsville, AL > 35805-6201 > > > T 256.261.6550 | F 256.430.4027 > > > www.***avocent.com<http://***www.***avocent.com> > > > www.***emersonnetworkpower.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Freeipmi-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://***lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users > > > > -- > Albert Chu > [email protected] > Computer Scientist > High Performance Systems Division > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
