Never mind, the problem persists. I think this may be due to bash exporting my custom functions into an sh (--posix) shell, which then barfs. This happens sometimes with Makefiles, though I don't understand it at all.
Yang On 9/17/07, Yang c17mswr02-at-sneakemail.com |openembedded| <...> wrote: > The problem seems to have gone away by itself after I wiped out the > tmp and sources directories (thus re-grabbing all the packages). > > Why was glibc 2.6 being pulled when generic.conf has the following line? > > PREFERRED_VERSION_glibc ?= "2.5" > > What does the ?= mean? > > BTW, is Angstrom substantially larger than generic? We currently are > trying to produce a tiny distro, at under 5MB. > > Michal, the soekris machine config is our own. Following this message > is the paste. > > Thanks for any answers, > > Yang > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Machine > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: X86 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Machine configuration for a Linux running on x86 > compatible machines > > # i386 doesn't work with NTPL, see > http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2006-03/msg00030.html > TARGET_ARCH = "i486" > # TARGET_VENDOR = "-oe" > PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS = "x86" > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-soekris4801" > # todo: convert to task-base > # BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS = "kernel pciutils udev kernel-modules" > MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules" > > MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 pci usbhost ext2 screen wifi" > > udevdir = "/dev" > OLDEST_KERNEL = "2.6.17" > GLIBC_ADDONS = "nptl" > GLIBC_EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-tls" > > SERIAL_CONSOLE = "ttyS0 19200 vt100" > > #require conf/machine/include/tune-x86.conf > > On 9/13/07, Dr. Michael Lauer mickey-at-vanille-media.de > |openembedded| <...> wrote: > > I'm afraid DISTRO = generic is missing some PREFERRED_VERSIONS, i.e. > > glibc 2.6.1 is bleeding edge, so I suggest staying with 2.5.x for a > > while. Please see some e.g. the Angstrom configuration and grab some > > of the PREFERRED_VERSIONS / PROVIDERS and put them into generic.conf. > > Patches welcome :) > > > > Regards, > > > > :M: > > -- > > Michael 'Mickey' Lauer | IT-Freelancer | http://www.vanille-media.de > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openembedded-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-users > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-users
