> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Robert P. J. Day > Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 6:57 AM > To: OpenEmbedded Development mailing list > Subject: [oe] any ETA on a working dev beagleboard demo image? > > > yes, i know i'm sounding like a broken record, but i have an invite > to give a short local demo of the beagleboard this tuesday and i'd > like to do it with an angstrom development demo image, just because i > prefer to live out there on the edge. > > at the moment, there is just the one package standing in the way -- > guile-native -- and as i recall, someone posted what looked like a > manual fix. is that being turned into a patch at any point? i > realize i'm nagging, but it's literally been *weeks* since that > particular bitbake target actually built, and every time it looks like > it's getting close to being buildable, more packages break. > > i appreciate that development means exactly that but, at the very > least, even the development branch should *build*, even if there are > run issues. I also had problems building the DEV branch, but as of yesterday, beagleboard-demo-image builds without errors on Ubuntu 9.10. I was having problems with webkit-gtk, but Koen released a fix on Saturday and now the build completes successfully. > > rday > > p.s. perhaps it would be useful to start tagging the development > branch at points where it builds, just so someone can always retreat > to the most recent known good build. > > or perhaps start a branch named, oh, "bleeding", which, when it builds > properly, can be merged back into development. whatever. but it > strikes me that it's overwhelmingly pointless to have a development > branch that doesn't build since that gives no one the opportunity to > actually test it. > > -- > > ============================================================= > =========== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > ============================================================= > =========== > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
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