From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:25:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Pre-RFC: clean integration of unclean packages In-Reply-To: <201112051046.38674.arnout@mind.be> References: <201112051046.38674.arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <201112061025.37686.arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hoi all, [Please keep me in CC] On Monday 05 December 2011 10:46:38 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > I mentioned a couple of months ago that I was trying to integrate TI's > SDK's for accessing the accelerator hardware on DaVinci and OMAP > platforms. I had given up on that but now I picked it up again. > > I did make some progress already. The most important step is that I > found tarballs or svn repositories for all the packages that I need, > so we can avoid executing a binary installer. I've ran into two more difficulties for which I could use some advise... 1. For some packages (notably the codec collection) I couldn't find a code repository or tar file, they only seem to be available as a binary installer. I don't like running downloaded binaries... In addition, the binary checks that you are running a specific distro and have a specific cross-compiler installed - which we don't want, of course. So as a work-around I'd like to create a .tar.gz for these packages (which is fortunately allowed by the license, although the text of some of the source files and PDF documents isn't so clear about it). But then we need a place to put it. 2. Some of the source files are generated by the XDCTool. This tool requires Java. I guess that's a dependency we want to avoid in buildroot. So I'll just add those generated files as patches. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 31BB CF53 8660 6F88 345D 54CC A836 5879 20D7 CF43