From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.169] helo=starfish.geekisp.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSerB-0008T1-6W for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:04 +0100 Received: (qmail 5718 invoked by uid 1003); 6 Jan 2010 22:57:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.167?) (philip@opensdr.com@127.0.0.1) by mail.geekisp.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2010 22:57:55 -0000 Message-ID: <4B451571.70305@balister.org> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:57:53 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <201001060507.31754.holger+oe@freyther.de> In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 216.168.135.169 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: philip@balister.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: QA Goals for OpenEmbedded X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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, 06 Jan 2010 23:00:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/06/2010 05:09 PM, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: >> *) Does bitbake world work? If not it would be cool if someone could take >> a look? > > I was hoping for bitbake world to work as a QA tool. But my efforts on > the world target didn't really receive a warm welcome. By now world is > so utterly broken that bitbake won't even ever start to execute any > tasks (I killed bitbake after two days when it still did nothing the > last time I tried). Can someone explain what bitbake world does? I would be happier working toward a set of images building for a set of distributions. Philip > > Unfortunately, currently there is no consensus in OE that > "MACHINE=$machine bitbake $bb" shouldn't arbitrarily fail somewhere. > Right now, OE does not have the tools in place to specify that for > example $bb1 does not compile for $machineA (some people are very > allergic to COMPATIBLE_MACHINE for no particular reason). Bitbake can't > do versioned depends and so we can't say that $bb2-$version does not > compile with gcc less than 3.4.x, for example. Those are just two > examples. XorA "solved" this in a hackish way with angsstrom.bbclass. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel >