Recipe for setting up OpenEmbedded environment on wiki

michael at michaelshiloh.com michael at michaelshiloh.com
Thu Feb 8 18:08:07 CET 2007




On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> michael at michaelshiloh.com writes:
>
>>> From my notes and history I created a rough draft of a recipe for getting the
>> OpenEmbedded environment set up on Ubuntu 6.10. I wrote the recipe after I did
>> this work, and errors may have crept in.
>>
>> I welcome testing, feedback, corrections, and comments:
>>
>>   http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/OpenEmbedded
>
> Rather than compiling from source, I was able to get monotone from
> http://www.venge.net/monotone/downloads/monotone_0.32-0.1_i386.deb
> and installed it with no problems (debian, not ubuntu, but it
> shouldn't matter).
>
> wget http://www.venge.net/monotone/downloads/monotone_0.32-0.1_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg --install monotone_0.32-0.1_i386.deb
>
>> I intend to follow this with other recipes, such as for other distributions,
>> for writing (trivial) applications, and for running on the emuators. Comments
>> welcomed here too.
>
> Thanks!  Especially for how to run the emulators.
>
>> There is a page that seems redundant:
>>
>>   http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/ToolChain
>>
>> Can anyone think of a reason to keep it?
>
> As a beginner, directions like the ones you're working on and like the
> ones at http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/GettingStarted are
> invaluable.  I suspect that once I know what I'm doing a one-line "use
> this machine and this distro" will be very welcome.
>
> Maybe putting this at the top of your recipe as an "if you've already
> got openembedded working" section?


Thanks for the feedback Joe. I will add both of your suggestions.

Michael




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