From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:41:10 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Request for comments on packages for TI's OMAP3 and DM365 processors In-Reply-To: <201110181433.26332.arnout@mind.be> (Arnout Vandecappelle's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:33:26 +0200") References: <1284746402-19186-1-git-send-email-pierreluc.simard@admetric.ca> <201110181123.03836.arnout@mind.be> <201110181433.26332.arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <87wrc2321l.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle writes: Hi, Arnout> Looks like I spoke too soon... Arnout> That TI stuff is an unholy mess of different libraries, Arnout> usually binary-only. The patches that Pierre-Luc posted don't Arnout> work anymore because things have been moved around on the TI Arnout> website. But the worst thing of all, all packages use a Arnout> binary installer that has to be executed to self-extract the Arnout> source code and (binary) libraries. Sigh :/ Arnout> Fortunately, TI's license allows redistribution in any form. Arnout> So we are allowed to repackage the extracted source/binary Arnout> code. That would be my preferred approach: download a .tgz Arnout> from the buildroot mirror instead of going through the mess of Arnout> running installer binaries. Arnout> Peter, is that an acceptable solution? Hmm, I would prefer not to, but if there's no other option.. Arnout> Bottom line will be that nothing of Pierre-Luc's original Arnout> patches will be left. For sure, I will limit my work to DM365 Arnout> (that's the one I need myself). And finally, my project Arnout> manager just bumped down the priority of having the Arnout> gstreamer-ti plugins in our project, so I may never do it Arnout> after all... :/ -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard