From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.127.225.96] (helo=alnrmhc16.comcast.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HCNfk-00021w-Qj for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:11:20 +0100 Received: from gatekeeper.stellarwerx.com (c-68-57-212-205.hsd1.in.comcast.net[68.57.212.205]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc16) with ESMTP id <20070131221119b16005m9she>; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:11:19 +0000 Received: by gatekeeper.stellarwerx.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0224A2E31; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:15:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Mark Gollahon" To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org X-Originating-IP: 192.168.253.203 X-Mailer: Usermin 1.230 Message-Id: <1170281735.26425@gatekeeper.stellarwerx.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:15:35 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: New IXP4XX-based Machine X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:11:21 -0000 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1170281735" --bound1170281735 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello! As I have stated before, I am a bit new, so please bear with me. I am trying to bring up OE on a new IXP4XX-based machine and having a little trouble with the "proper" way to do it. For example, I created a whole new machine config, inserting what I think should be machine-specific settings, and importing the (now somewhat-defunct) ixp4xx.conf configuration (and later the ixp4xxbe.conf configuration). My bootstrap-image gets everything compiled, but when it goes to build the rootfs, ipkg fails looking for task-base. My question is not so much about getting ipkg to work (I have found several ways), but more about the "proper" way so that I don't go "spinning into the grass" in the future. I noticed that during the rootfs build that the "ixp4xxbe" "arch" was not in the ipkg config file, so all of my "*_ixp4xxbe.ipk" files were completely ignored - stuff like "task-base"! I ultimately had to append "armv5te" and "ixp4xxbe" to PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS and that worked, but I worked on this on-and-off for over a week to figure it out. I really don't want to do that again when/if I try to bring up another machine. My question is - should I even be attempting to define a new machine and including ixp4xxbe.conf in it? Should I define my own machine by copying the contents of ixp4xxbe.conf? Should I have specified the "ixp4xxbe" machine file in my local.conf along with the extra (what I think should be) machine config? Or should I define my own distro and put that machine config there? What is the most appropriate way to do this? Thank you! -Mark Gollahon --bound1170281735--