Re: [dylan] Backport request

[Jack Mitchell <ml@communistcode.co.uk>]

On 14/03/2014 18:57, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 03/14/2014 11:34 AM, Paul Barker wrote:
>> I'm stuck using Dylan for a project as I need a 3.2 series kernel.
>> Building on my current development machine I ran into two failures:
>>
>> eglibc-initial, do_configure: Make 4.0 isn't recognised
>>
>> This can be fixed by backporting
>> a678243d6e4add90c1e9459da42de34d3724db5d (already in Dora).
>>
>> linux-yocto_3.2: do_patch: Unsupported version of git (1.9.0)
>>
>> I fixed this by removing git-native from ASSUME_PROVIDED in
>> meta/conf/bitbake.conf so that git-native-1.8.1.4 was built and used.
>> That isn't something we should commit in Dylan but may be useful for
>> others to know the solution if they run into the same problem.
>>
> Can't you use the buildtools tarball?  It includes the right version of
> make and git.

Indeed, this is what I do on my ArchLinux machines when something is too 
new; it's just a simple sourcing of an environment file before the build 
and you're good to go.

Cheers,

>
> Sau!
>
>> Thanks,
>>