Building FSO Wiki page

John Whitmore captain.deadly at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 14:20:13 CEST 2008


Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Thanks to all who replied and to Hedora who went and edited the wiki 
page. No doubt more questions may follow from me in the fullness of 
time, but for the moment I'm building. I'm hoping that I can ultimately 
help out here. If asking questions of Wiki pages highlights areas for 
improvement maybe it'll save future people asking the same questions.

A lot of information gets posted on this mailing list and the more of it 
that gets filtered onto the wiki the less questions there'll be on this 
list. For the moment looking forward to understanding, and ultimately 
helping in a more code based way.

Thanks for all the good work and help.




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