On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:02 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Despite my complaining, thanks to those who are working on stuff > like the tutorial and on this bootstrap install program. Things > are better than they were when I tried OE a year ago and gave up > because it was too difficult. I'm working on using OE in the > CELF test lab, as the base for the test distribution used there. > A contractor was able to get things working there, but he also > complained about the rather high hurdle to get started with > OE. > > I hope the feedback is helpful. BTW, I have funding I can > throw at the task if someone is willing to do contract work > to create an idiot-proof installer (this script is a good > start but it needs to be a bit more robust). If anyone is > interested in discussing the details of this, please contact > me.
Poky (http://projects.o-hand.com/poky) is effectively a cutdown version of OE which includes a copy of bitbake and is designed to "just work". I'd like to think its slightly easier to install and use than OE itself. http://svn.o-hand.com/view/poky/trunk/readme.txt?rev=259&view=markup is the readme file which assumes you've made an svn checkout first (svn co http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/poky/trunk poky). Feel free to try poky and see how you get on with it! There are probably a few things OE could learn from this and the fairly simple setup scripts used. The problem is that this type of scripting is something that generally lies on top of OE rather than being part of it as it does constrain its usage. (Tim: You might also be interested to know I use OE to work with LTTng and poky also includes lttng support) Regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
