Is jessie the best debian to use now? I got the feeling that the czmq or zmq versions in 'configure; autobuild were upgraded to require the stretch versions and it broke back compatability with wheezy and jessie?
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:14:12 UTC, Schooner wrote: > > > On 30/11/17 14:23, Rob M wrote: > > > > Schooner, > > Cheers for your reply. Going by what you said maybe running on a Jessie > image maybe my best bet ? > > Depends completely upon what you are trying to do. > > The image is actually probably Wheezy. > > > So I managed to get a docker image to build machinekit packages for > jessie, so I guess that is a plus. This is the resource I used > https://github.com/Dovetail-Automata/mk-cross-builder . > > > Yeah, that is what we use in the CI Builder > > > I guess now the best thing to do would be start running jessie, > install/upgrade machine with the packages built in the docker container. > With a large enough sd card I could install a build enviroment and use that > to build hidcomp on ? > > > I would be minded to fix hidcomp on the image you have first, then look at > upgrading the image to something else. > There are other problems with using Jessie and later kernels that are best > left until after this. > > Trying to build anything natively on the BBB is a major pain, it has the > processing power of an 80's Casio watch. (minor exaggeration) > That is without the added problem of the Makefile.modinc from the earlier > -dev packages previously mentioned. > > I would cross-build the altered Machinekit repo for Wheezy armhf and copy > the relevant modules across to test them. > > When that is proved, if it fits nicely with the rest of the repo, it could > be included and then you can just install the new Machinekit packages onto > whatever > platform you are using, but would need to see the code first. > > > I'm not looking to use the LCD portion so that's not a real issue I'm > guessing ? > > I must admit I'm not a "debian guy" Slackware is more my cup of tea. Would > I be correct in guessing before I build the binary-debs I should build a > source package that I can decompress later and use to build hidcomp against > ? > > I'm really appreciating your time. > > Rob > -- > website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: > https://github.com/machinekit > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Machinekit" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
