Using OpenEmbedded Core to check this month's release

[Ken Werner]

On 03/09/2012 01:33 AM, Michael Hope wrote:
> Hi Ken.  This month's release is next week.  Let's be aggressive and
> see if we can use your meta-linaro layer to check the source release.
>
> I want to use tcserver01 in the validation lab instead of the cloud
> until we know how much it costs.  I've added you an account and done a
> test build to check that the dependencies are there.  There's a shared
> directory in /home/shared that includes downloads and a sstate-cache.
> The machine seems fast enough for the job.

Thanks for providing the setup! As an initial test I've started a build 
against the source gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.02. There is a small bash script 
[1] that automates checkouts (oe-core, meta-linaro and bitbake 
branches), creates a config that suites our requirements and finally 
kicks off builds of the sato and qt4e images. It's been compiling for 
some time now - still looking good. :)

> The tarball should be ready around Tuesday next week.  Once ready,
> could you mix it in with the meta-linaro layer, do a build, boot the
> rootfs in qemu, and document as you go?  Anything past that is
> welcome.

As for the documentation - do we need anything more than what's in the wiki?

> It's all manual but a nice proof of concept.  Can we check the binary
> build as well?

Sure, just point me to the tarballs and I'll create the recipe and give 
it a go.

Regards,
Ken

[1] http://people.linaro.org/~kwerner/oe-core/script/build-oe-core-linaro.sh