Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[Andrew Paulsen]

I'm getting some errors building gpe-image, specifically on the
dbus-glib-0.72 package, that seem to be related to include path
problems.

My local.conf has these settings:
MACHINE = "compulab-pxa270"
DISTRO = "familiar-unstable"

And the log leading up to the error is:
NOTE: package dbus-glib-0.72: started
NOTE: package dbus-glib-0.72-r0: task do_compile: started
NOTE: SITE files
/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/org.openembedded.dev/site/endian-little
/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/org.openembedded.dev/site/arm-linux
ERROR: function do_compile failed
ERROR: log data follows
(/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/temp/log.do_compile.7567)
| NOTE: make
| make  all-recursive
| make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72'
| Making all in dbus
| make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
| make  all-recursive
| make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
| Making all in .
| make[4]: Entering directory
`/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
| if /bin/sh ../arm-linux-libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile
arm-linux-gcc -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus
-I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72
-I..  -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/glib-2.0
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/glib-2.0/include
   -DDBUS_COMPILATION=1 -DDBUS_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
-DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1
-isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
-isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -O2
-Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal
-Wsign-compare -MT dbus-glib.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/dbus-glib.Tpo" -c
-o dbus-glib.lo dbus-glib.c; \
|       then mv -f ".deps/dbus-glib.Tpo" ".deps/dbus-glib.Plo"; else
rm -f ".deps/dbus-glib.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
|  arm-linux-gcc -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus
-I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72
-I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/glib-2.0
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/glib-2.0/include
-DDBUS_COMPILATION=1 -DDBUS_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
-DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1
-isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
-isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -O2
-Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal
-Wsign-compare -MT dbus-glib.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/dbus-glib.Tpo -c
dbus-glib.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/dbus-glib.o
| In file included from dbus-glib.c:25:
| dbus-glib.h:28:30: dbus/dbus-shared.h: No such file or directory

<...and a bunch more of these...>


Sure enough, the missing files aren't in the -I paths:
packet@linuxdev0:~/OpenEmbedded/build/$ find tmp -name dbus-shared.h
tmp/work/i686-linux/dbus-native-0.94-r0/dbus-0.94/dbus/dbus-shared.h
tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-0.92-r1/dbus-0.92/dbus/dbus-shared.h
tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-0.92-r1/install/dbus-dev/usr/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/dbus-shared.h
tmp/staging/i686-linux/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/dbus-shared.h
tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/dbus-shared.h


I'm new to this so I would really appreciate some guidance.

Re: Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[Jim Rayner]

On 11/17/06, Andrew Paulsen <andrew.paulsen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting some errors building gpe-image, specifically on the
> dbus-glib-0.72 package, that seem to be related to include path
> problems.

Maybe lacking

export DBUS_CFLAGS = " -I${STAGING_DIR}/${TARGET_SYS}/include/dbus-1.0"

or something similar from the dbus-glib-0.72.bb file

Also some similarity to http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371

Jim

Re: Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[Andrew Paulsen]

On 11/17/06, Jim Rayner <oe@jrayner.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/06, Andrew Paulsen <andrew.paulsen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm getting some errors building gpe-image, specifically on the
> > dbus-glib-0.72 package, that seem to be related to include path
> > problems.
>
> Maybe lacking
>
> export DBUS_CFLAGS = " -I${STAGING_DIR}/${TARGET_SYS}/include/dbus-1.0"
>
> or something similar from the dbus-glib-0.72.bb file

I added the following line to the dbus-glib-0.72.bb file:

export DBUS_CFLAGS = " -I${STAGING_DIR}/${TARGET_SYS}/include/dbus-1.0
-I${STAGING_DIR}/${TARGET_SYS}/lib/dbus-1.0/include"


This allowed a little more progress before failure:

| if /bin/sh ../arm-linux-libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile
arm-linux-gcc -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus
-I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72
-I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/dbus-1.0
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/dbus-1.0/include
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/glib-2.0
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/glib-2.0/include
   -DDBUS_COMPILATION=1 -DDBUS_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
-DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1
-isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
-isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -O2
-Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal
-Wsign-compare -MT dbus-gobject.lo -MD -MP -MF
".deps/dbus-gobject.Tpo" -c -o dbus-gobject.lo dbus-gobject.c; \
|       then mv -f ".deps/dbus-gobject.Tpo" ".deps/dbus-gobject.Plo";
else rm -f ".deps/dbus-gobject.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
|  arm-linux-gcc -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus
-I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72
-I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/dbus-1.0
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/dbus-1.0/include
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/glib-2.0
-I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/glib-2.0/include
-DDBUS_COMPILATION=1 -DDBUS_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
-DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1
-isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
-isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
-fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -O2
-Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal
-Wsign-compare -MT dbus-gobject.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/dbus-gobject.Tpo
-c dbus-gobject.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/dbus-gobject.o
| dbus-gobject.c: In function `invoke_object_method':
| dbus-gobject.c:997: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
| dbus-gobject.c:1137: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
| dbus-gobject.c:1230: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
| In file included from dbus-gobject.c:1539:
| dbus-glib-error-switch.h: In function `dbus_error_to_gerror_code':
| dbus-glib-error-switch.h:41: error: `DBUS_ERROR_FILE_EXISTS'
undeclared (first use in this function)
| dbus-glib-error-switch.h:41: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
| dbus-glib-error-switch.h:41: error: for each function it appears in.)
| dbus-glib-error-switch.h:65: error:
`DBUS_ERROR_INVALID_FILE_CONTENT' undeclared (first use in this
function)
| dbus-gobject.c: In function `dbus_g_object_register_marshaller':
| dbus-gobject.c:1907: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
| dbus-gobject.c: In function `dbus_g_method_return':
| dbus-gobject.c:2040: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
| make[4]: *** [dbus-gobject.lo] Error 1
| make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
| make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
| make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
| make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
| make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72'
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| FATAL: oe_runmake failed
NOTE: Task failed:
/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/temp/log.do_compile.27174
NOTE: package dbus-glib-0.72-r0: task do_compile: failed


It appears that dbus-glib is trying to use defines from dbus 1.0, but
version 0.92 is what is being installed.

Re: Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[pHilipp Zabel]

On 11/17/06, Andrew Paulsen <andrew.paulsen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/06, Jim Rayner <oe@jrayner.com> wrote:
> > On 11/17/06, Andrew Paulsen <andrew.paulsen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm getting some errors building gpe-image, specifically on the
> > > dbus-glib-0.72 package, that seem to be related to include path
> > > problems.
> >
> > Maybe lacking
> >
> > export DBUS_CFLAGS = " -I${STAGING_DIR}/${TARGET_SYS}/include/dbus-1.0"
> >
> > or something similar from the dbus-glib-0.72.bb file
>
> I added the following line to the dbus-glib-0.72.bb file:
>
> export DBUS_CFLAGS = " -I${STAGING_DIR}/${TARGET_SYS}/include/dbus-1.0
> -I${STAGING_DIR}/${TARGET_SYS}/lib/dbus-1.0/include"
>
>
> This allowed a little more progress before failure:
>
> | if /bin/sh ../arm-linux-libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile
> arm-linux-gcc -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus
> -I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72
> -I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/dbus-1.0
> -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/dbus-1.0/include
> -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/glib-2.0
> -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/glib-2.0/include
>    -DDBUS_COMPILATION=1 -DDBUS_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
> -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1
> -isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
> -isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
> -fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -O2
> -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal
> -Wsign-compare -MT dbus-gobject.lo -MD -MP -MF
> ".deps/dbus-gobject.Tpo" -c -o dbus-gobject.lo dbus-gobject.c; \
> |       then mv -f ".deps/dbus-gobject.Tpo" ".deps/dbus-gobject.Plo";
> else rm -f ".deps/dbus-gobject.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> |  arm-linux-gcc -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus
> -I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72
> -I.. -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/dbus-1.0
> -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/dbus-1.0/include
> -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include/glib-2.0
> -I/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/lib/glib-2.0/include
> -DDBUS_COMPILATION=1 -DDBUS_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
> -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1
> -isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
> -isystem/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/staging/arm-linux/include
> -fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -O2
> -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wfloat-equal
> -Wsign-compare -MT dbus-gobject.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/dbus-gobject.Tpo
> -c dbus-gobject.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/dbus-gobject.o
> | dbus-gobject.c: In function `invoke_object_method':
> | dbus-gobject.c:997: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> | dbus-gobject.c:1137: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> | dbus-gobject.c:1230: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> | In file included from dbus-gobject.c:1539:
> | dbus-glib-error-switch.h: In function `dbus_error_to_gerror_code':
> | dbus-glib-error-switch.h:41: error: `DBUS_ERROR_FILE_EXISTS'
> undeclared (first use in this function)
> | dbus-glib-error-switch.h:41: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once
> | dbus-glib-error-switch.h:41: error: for each function it appears in.)
> | dbus-glib-error-switch.h:65: error:
> `DBUS_ERROR_INVALID_FILE_CONTENT' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> | dbus-gobject.c: In function `dbus_g_object_register_marshaller':
> | dbus-gobject.c:1907: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> | dbus-gobject.c: In function `dbus_g_method_return':
> | dbus-gobject.c:2040: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> | make[4]: *** [dbus-gobject.lo] Error 1
> | make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
> | make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> | make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
> | make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> | make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72/dbus'
> | make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> | make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/dbus-glib-0.72'
> | make: *** [all] Error 2
> | FATAL: oe_runmake failed
> NOTE: Task failed:
> /home/packet/OpenEmbedded/build/tmp/work/armv5te-linux/dbus-glib-0.72-r0/temp/log.do_compile.27174
> NOTE: package dbus-glib-0.72-r0: task do_compile: failed
>
>
> It appears that dbus-glib is trying to use defines from dbus 1.0, but
> version 0.92 is what is being installed.

I think dbus-glib 0.72 needs dbus >= 0.94.
The dbus-1.0 in the include path only denotes the protocol version.

regards
Philipp

Re: Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[Andrew Paulsen]

> I think dbus-glib 0.72 needs dbus >= 0.94.
> The dbus-1.0 in the include path only denotes the protocol version.
>
> regards
> Philipp

Ok, I'll rephrase my question then.  How do I change the package
versions that are being built?

Again, my local.conf contains:
MACHINE = "compulab-pxa270"
DISTRO = "familiar-unstable"

and I'm trying to "bitbake gpe-image"

Re: Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[Koen Kooi]

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Andrew Paulsen schreef:
>> I think dbus-glib 0.72 needs dbus >= 0.94.
>> The dbus-1.0 in the include path only denotes the protocol version.
>>
>> regards
>> Philipp
>
> Ok, I'll rephrase my question then.  How do I change the package
> versions that are being built?
>
> Again, my local.conf contains:
> MACHINE = "compulab-pxa270"
> DISTRO = "familiar-unstable"
>
> and I'm trying to "bitbake gpe-image"

Familiar is unmaintained in OE, so your error messages don't surprise us.

You could try

DISTRO=angstrom-2007.1
DISTRO=celinux-test
DISTRO=generic
DISTRO=openzaurus-unstable

To get a distro that regularly checked for problems.

regards,

Koen
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Re: Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[Andrew Paulsen]

On 11/17/06, Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
> Familiar is unmaintained in OE, so your error messages don't surprise us.
>
> You could try
>
> DISTRO=angstrom-2007.1
> DISTRO=celinux-test
> DISTRO=generic
> DISTRO=openzaurus-unstable
>
> To get a distro that regularly checked for problems.

Ok, I've got angstrom-2007.1 building right now.  I tried Familiar
first since it was the example in local.conf.sample - maybe that
should be changed to something that is maintained if you're not
surprised that it doesn't work.

Re: Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[Erik Hovland]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:01:12PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Andrew Paulsen schreef:
> >> I think dbus-glib 0.72 needs dbus >= 0.94.
> >> The dbus-1.0 in the include path only denotes the protocol version.
> >>
> >> regards
> >> Philipp
> >
> > Ok, I'll rephrase my question then.  How do I change the package
> > versions that are being built?
> >
> > Again, my local.conf contains:
> > MACHINE = "compulab-pxa270"
> > DISTRO = "familiar-unstable"
> >
> > and I'm trying to "bitbake gpe-image"
> 
> Familiar is unmaintained in OE, so your error messages don't surprise us.

I try to keep up, but I am afraid I have too many chores to keep
familiar as fresh as I would like in OE.

It is maintained here though:
http://familiar.handhelds.org/#build

E

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Erik Hovland
mail: erik AT hovland DOT org
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A note about familiar-instable, was: Re[2]: Problem building dbus-glib-0.72

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Erik,

Friday, November 17, 2006, 9:41:06 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:01:12PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>> 
>> Andrew Paulsen schreef:
>> >> I think dbus-glib 0.72 needs dbus >= 0.94.
>> >> The dbus-1.0 in the include path only denotes the protocol version.
>> >>
>> >> regards
>> >> Philipp
>> >
>> > Ok, I'll rephrase my question then.  How do I change the package
>> > versions that are being built?
>> >
>> > Again, my local.conf contains:
>> > MACHINE = "compulab-pxa270"
>> > DISTRO = "familiar-unstable"
>> >
>> > and I'm trying to "bitbake gpe-image"
>> 
>> Familiar is unmaintained in OE, so your error messages don't surprise us.

> I try to keep up, but I am afraid I have too many chores to keep
> familiar as fresh as I would like in OE.

  Well, the exact situation with "familiar-unstable" is that, taking
into account that Familiar development was forked into separate tree,
familiar-unstable.conf as it is in OE, has no relation to the Familiar
distro, because it does not build packages compatible with any
existing Familiar release. Again, as future release planning of
Familiar happens outside of mainline OE, it cannot be said that
familiar-unstable represents any future Familiar version.

  That is, "familiar-unstable" is just a random unmaintained distro,
nothing more.

  I was interested to make OE build Familiar-0.8.4 compatible
packages, and I actually made a distro config which does exactly that,
at least on few packages I tried. But for me, it was mostly a learning
exercise, testing how well OE keeps to its promise of easily
supporting different distros, consisting of different package
versions. Well, I knew it does, I was interested how much effort it
will take to do that for some real-world case. And while bitbake
latency makes this a bit of chore, it's more than doable.

  However, after communicating with OE maintainers, I decided not to
submit this config for mainline inclusion, nor even announce it
publicly on Familiar lists. The motivation was the anticipation that
such action may cause another coil of argument between Familiar and OE
teams, and that would be the last thing I personally wanted.

  Instead, I semi-privately contacted few persons I knew who might be
interested in that config, for example, for maintaining an updated
local feed. I got zero response, and this message is essentially a
last call, whether someone wants it. Note that while I initially
wanted to make more or less maintainable config, possibly with bitbake
external collection for packages already removed from OE.dev, I didn't
finish this due to the described lack of interest, so the only thing I
can offer is familiar-0.8.4-unstable.conf, which has
PREFERRED_VERSIONs for *some* of packages required by Familiar 0.8.4.
As OE.dev progresses rapidly, and old versions of packages are
removed, it may be the case that this config won't any longer work
OOB, and would need some tweaking before it will work.
  


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Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com