[yocto] busybox-static how to?

2012-07-24 Thread Dallas Clement
I'm trying to get the core-image-minimal distro to boot in qemu for an ARM Cortex A9 system. It boots the kernel fine, but croaks when it tries to run init. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs (sda): using internal journal EXT3-fs (sda): recovery complete EXT3-fs (sda): mounted

[yocto] hob issues

2012-07-24 Thread Dallas Clement
I've having some difficulty running hob on Debian "wheezy/sid". When I enter "hob" from the command line, an X-window opens, but none of the controls have any text labels. Also, none of the drop-down lists are populated. I also see this message on the command prompt: Gtk-Message: Failed to load

Re: [yocto] do_rootfs fails, dpkg host dependency

2012-07-23 Thread Dallas Clement
Pls disregard. Something got wonked in my build dir. I blew it away and rebuilt everything. It finished without errors. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Dallas Clement wrote: > do_rootfs is failing when I try to build core-image-minimal on a > debian squeeze box. I am surprised

[yocto] do_rootfs fails, dpkg host dependency

2012-07-23 Thread Dallas Clement
do_rootfs is failing when I try to build core-image-minimal on a debian squeeze box. I am surprised it is trying to do something that requires root privilege on the host. Any ideas on how to get past this? NOTE: package core-image-minimal-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: Started ERROR: Function failed: d

[yocto] cannot compute suffix of object files

2012-07-21 Thread Dallas Clement
I'm using a pre-compiled toolchain to build my distro. When I execute "bitbake core-image-minimal", things fail in eglibc. DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'bit-32', 'arm-common', 'common-linux', 'common-glibc', 'arm-linux', 'arm-linux-gnueabi', 'common'] ERROR: Function failed: do_configure

[yocto] INSANE_SKIP

2012-07-20 Thread Dallas Clement
Is there a way to skip a QA check for more than one package or all packages? I'd like to avoid having to add a INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "ldflags" for every package that fails due to ERROR: QA Issue: No GNU_HASH in the elf binary. There are gobs of python and perl packages failing with this error when

Re: [yocto] sysroot / external toolchain

2012-07-13 Thread Dallas Clement
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Chris Larson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dallas Clement > wrote: >> Thanks Chris. I was close, just missing the actual copying part from >> the do_install() as observed. ;^) >> >> I got quite a bit further. Am run

Re: [yocto] sysroot / external toolchain

2012-07-13 Thread Dallas Clement
Thanks Chris. I was close, just missing the actual copying part from the do_install() as observed. ;^) I got quite a bit further. Am running into issues like this now: ERROR: QA Issue: No GNU_HASH in the elf binary: '/development/dallasc/yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/ext

[yocto] sysroot / external toolchain

2012-07-13 Thread Dallas Clement
I'm using an external toolchain for my project. What is the proper way to include my external toolchain libc files in the sysroot? Currently I have TOOLCHAIN_OPTIONS = " --sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}" and EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN_SYSROOT_CMD = "${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc ${TARGET_CC_ARCH} -print-sysroot" E

[yocto] external toolchain

2012-07-12 Thread Dallas Clement
I'm trying to use an external pre-built toolchain to build my distro. I added a "TCMODE ?= "external-sourcery" to my local.conf and modified the external-sourcery include file as follows: diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-external-sourcery.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-external-

[yocto] How to clean

2012-06-26 Thread Dallas Clement
I'd like to clean all of my build output so that I can rebuild with a different toolchain. What is the best way to clean without having to redownload all of my source packages again? I can see that something like this $ bitbake -c cleanall linux-yocto can clean the kernel or an individual packa

[yocto] using a custom pre-built toolchain

2012-06-19 Thread Dallas Clement
I have a cross-toolchain supplied by an ARM SoC vendor which I need to use to build my distro. What is required to use a toolchain like this instead of one of the yocto cross-toolchain tarballs? Thanks ___ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https

[yocto] trouble running hob on Debian

2012-06-19 Thread Dallas Clement
I'm experiencing some grief trying to run hob from my Debian Squeeze (6.0.5). [dallasc /development/dallasc/yocto/poky/build] hob FATAL: Gtk+, PyGtk and PyGobject are required to use Hob, You have Gtk+ 2.20.1 and PyGtk 2.17.0. I believe I have all these packages installed. Perhaps it needs newer

Re: [yocto] trouble building bsp for arm

2012-06-19 Thread Dallas Clement
Okay, using the git poky, I was able to build the bsp. It seems that the tarball version is not able to complete this step: Getting branches from remote repo git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.2... On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Dallas Clement wrote: > That's correct.  I have

Re: [yocto] trouble building bsp for arm

2012-06-19 Thread Dallas Clement
o with the same errors. I am using the latest poky tarball - poky-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2 Thanks, Dallas On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Tom Zanussi wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:37 -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: >> Hi all,  Please bear with me as I am a newb to both yocto and buildin

[yocto] trouble building bsp for arm

2012-06-19 Thread Dallas Clement
Hi all,  Please bear with me as I am a newb to both yocto and building bsp's.   I was able to run bitbake core-image-minimal for x86-64, just fine and run it in qemu. Then I got gutsy and tried to build a bsp for ARM.  Didn't go so well.  I must be missing something. dallasc ~/development/yocto/p