On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 02:24 +0200, Chris wrote:
> Having already tried to find out how to use OE to get something compiled for 
> a 
> PDA, I know that I'm not the only one on FreeBSD. But besides a short 
> conversation almost a year ago where a link to 
> http://oe.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/BuildOnFreeBSD (which isn't 
> available anymore) was named I couldn't find anything that helps me. 
> GettingStarted in the Wiki has been read (again and again).
> 
> My situation is, that I don't want to compile the whole distribution or a 
> meta 
> package. It's only a small program without UI.
> So if possible I'd like to get around compiling gcc and libc, but don't know 
> how. Any hints where to get them precompiled?
> 
> Part of my confusion is the problem to understand what "virtual/" in 
> ASSUME_PROVIDED and PREFERRED_PROVIDERS strings stands for. A placeholder for 
> a special directory?

virtual/ is a namespace and packages can elect to provide or require
these virtual entities. libc can be provided by glibc or uclibc for
example. For an example of how to use ASSUME_PROVIDED see
conf/machine/native.conf

> Ok, I nevertheless tried to compile the program I want and bitbake started 
> gathering dependencies, compiling quilt-native but failed at the second 
> package. The error isn't very helpful and I'm already stuck.
> 
> That's all:
> NOTE: package gnu-config-native-0.1+cvs20050701-r4: task do_patch: started
> ERROR: function do_patchcleancmd failed
> ERROR: log data follows 
> (/home/chris/coding/oe/tmp/work/i386-freebsd6/gnu-config-native-0.1+cvs20050701-r4/temp/log.do_patchcleancmd.27947)
> | Usage: quilt pop [-afRqv] [num|patch]
> 
> Any ideas?

I don't have a fix but you could use patcher instead of quilt. INHERIT
+= "patcher" in your local.conf.

Regards,

Richard

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