Building FSO Wiki page

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at openmoko.org
Sat Sep 6 15:13:47 CEST 2008


Am Saturday 06 September 2008 14:40:40 schrieb Rod Whitby:
> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > Am Saturday 06 September 2008 00:48:00 schrieb Rod Whitby:
> >> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> >>> For building a .dev branch, in your local.conf file, you should have at
> >>> least the following three entries. Example for the Angstrom
> >>> distribution and the Openmoko gta01 machine:
> >>>
> >>> BBFILES = "/stuff/org.openembedded.dev/packages/*/*.bb"
> >>> DISTRO = "angstrom-2008.1"
> >>> MACHINE = "om-gta01"
> >>
> >> I thought DISTRO was "openmoko" for FSO builds?
> >
> > Yes, but this was a quote from the wiki page.
>
> Therein lies the problem with that wiki page
> (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO).
>
> It's meant to tell you how to build FSO, but instead it starts talking
> about Angstrom half way through (after the first half of the page
> duplicates other existing OpenEmbedded pages).

Yeah, it looks like it's largely based on the respective text in OE's 
GettingStarted.

> No wonder people are confused about how to build things ...

Indeed. Perhaps the one who added this page should have stripped it a bit.

Thankfully, it's a Wiki and everyone can fix this.

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