Am Mi 28. Mai 2008 schrieb Andy Green: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > | | What we need is to enable to install these into the toolchain somehow, > | | rather than make that a special "do it at the factory" operation > | to get > | | things into toolchain. > | | > | |> Agreed, but till that time if anyone is interested in the toolchain I > | |> can put it up somewhere. > | > | Hey good job Pranav. > | > | After 7 months of proposing this methodology I finally get a taker -- > | from outside OM. Maybe in another 7 months we can get a host-side opkg > | > |> Hmm, so within OM you guys don't prefer/advise using pre-built > |> toolchains? Any particular reason? > > Open Embedded is the basis for current OM build system, it has a > Gentoo-type build-it-all-from-scratch approach. It wanted to build over > 1,100 packages when I tried to use it to compile ONE package, many of > these packages were built for host. It was unable to build its thousand > packages of fun on Fedora 9 so I was unable to use it -- at all. > > In fact all of the target packages it wanted to compile were sitting > there already compiled in the distribution packages, it did not need to > do any of it. All it needed was to use the prebuilt toolchain like you > did, and unpack existing target packages and their -dev into the host > like you did, and I would have been away. > > |> For me, it seems too tedious to setup the OM dev env to build single app > |> like the dialer or some other app like squid-cache. I think the > |> toolchain is very useful, especially for small apps, test programs or > |> even OM apps, which just needs a small personalized modification. > |> Anyway, thats just my thought. > > Totally agree. But more so: it should be the basis of our offering to > devs. Vast bulk of potential devs only want to recompile THEIR package > and just link against distro packages, or cherrypick one distro app to > modify. Package-based toolchain is the perfect, lean basis for this. > > -Andy > > ACK!!! 110% gentoo is a weird approach, that discourages potential devs from giving it a shot. :-(
my 0.02€ jOERG [[poor developers, I really feel with them]] [OWTTE quote of ~may 2 2008 fellow lodger. when asking how to build my own branch]
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