I think I just did mention some packages... Maemo is missing "outo" during the initial stages of checking for all available recipes and tasks and it's missing things. This is the same thing with the task-openmoko.bb ...

I'm compiling for the mini2440 board. It's an armv4t board. The majority of the things that I can see will and should compile for it. But when I say broken, I am talking about recipes that don't even make it to running the queue part... the recipes that stop before that because of missing components. I understand that certain packages might not compile for obscure hardware.

As I said in my previous post, I think that more people get confused and waste a lot of time trying to fix broken things. From what I understand of Maemo, not all of it is available as open source so it shouldnt be included at all, right???

I've not tried to build everything. So I don't have a list. I'm just mentioning two that I tried today, and that I've tried over the past few months with the same results.

Thanks for your reply :)

Bill

On 5/30/2010 3:14 PM, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
Hi Bill,

Can someone tell me the reason for keeping broken recipes in the tree?
Define 'broken'; some packages only build for a certain combination of $MACHINE 
and $DISTRO,
and sometimes perhaps even $OUT_OF_TREE_OVERLAY.

If a package is definitely broken, we should move it to 'broken' (if there is 
still
any interest in it), or remove it altogether. Most of the time it's maintainers 
disappearing
and who knows when or if they will appear again, so why annoy them by removing 
the recipe?

There's also lack of manpower to throw into the equation.

Which concrete recipes do you mean? I'd agree with removing a dozen of openmoko 
ones
for distributions that noone works on any longer (i.e. Openmoko 2007.2 and 
Openmoko 2008),
but please tell me exactly which ones.

Cheers,

:M:


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