On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:16:44 -0600 Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> said:
> On 07/16/15 19:03, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 06:36:39 -0600 Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> > > said: > > > >> A while back, On 02/25/15 00:41, Du, Dolpher wrote: > >>> **On behalf of Tizen development tools team and all other contributors** > >>> > >>> We are pleased to announce that new version of Tizen development > >>> tools [15.01] is released on download.tizen.org, including the following: > >> ... > >>> For information about Tools repositories, refer to: > >>> > >>> [Tools Repository](http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/) > >> > >> Curious about the plans for (and also "how can we help?") support of > >> newer versions of distributions. It's a pain to have to keep picking up > >> new stuff I know, but sometimes we end up constrained, by new computer > >> hardware, to use quite a new distribution. Personally I'm in such a > >> case needing Ubuntu 15.04 to make a new laptop work. Fedora 21/22 and > >> Debian 8 are in the same situation, not in the supported list. > > > > i just spent all of yesterday fighting with qemu, binfmt misc emulation and > > simply it not running arm binaries - i used a "new" distro (arch) because i > > frankly find it valuable to be able to track new sw far more easily (esp > > useful for wayland), but gbs just can't work. after many hours i've given > > up. > > > > generally imho the whole qemu "let's fake an arm system process-by-process" > > is a very fragile hack. it's simply bd and makes it very hard to work with > > tizen as pretty much the only thing gbs works on is some old version of > > ubuntu. > > > > it's time we dump gbs. it's far too limiting. we have to move to a pure > > cross-build ala yocto. debugging qemu binfmt emulation is a nightmare - it's > > pretty close to impossible, and an insane time-sink. > > > > if we are going to limit people to a distribution - it should be tizen > > itself. > > > > <grumble grumble grumble> :) > > > > ugh, that's fugglier than I thought. > > those of us fiddling with the rpi2 are using the yocto recpies for > building, it's got some headaches but seemingly not like the above. which is impossible to use thanks to company firewalls basically blocking things like git protocol - would have to modify every .bb file and move to http - if it exists for that git repo every git checkout from tizen.org as it has to go via ssh, requires a firewall exception... suffice to say yocto is flakey-custom-corporate-it-unfriendly. i'm not sinking more time into it and fighting with it, firewalls, proxies, ssh etc. :( -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
