Hi,

I very recently moved from Buildroot to OpenEmbedded. I've been trying to build the Angstrom overlay for AT91SAM9263ek.

I'm working on Ubuntu 10.04, and installed all the necessary applications and tools as per the various wikis and guides. I downloaded Openembedded using git, then the /stable/2009 branch, and downloaded the Angstrom overlay for AT91SAM9. I changed MACHINE ?= "at91sam9263ek". I typed "bitbake console-at91sam9-image and hit enter. That was two days ago.

Various packages failed due to broken links etc, but these were fixed by either downloading the packages into the source folder or by changing the links in the recipes. However I'm stuck and I don't know how to proceed. I've searched da interwebz but without success. It seems only one other person had the same failure and the suggestions didn't help me.

1. the package base-files_3.0.14 fails to build. From the log files it seems that the installs don't create necessary directories, that is, share and license, and the files in these folders then can't be copied elsewhere.

Following suggestions made on the IRC where the other base-files failure was mentioned, I tried the following, as it seemed parallel builds could mean dependencies would fail. This led to the next headache:

2. the package eds-dbus-1.4.0+svnr659-r7 apparently doesn't exist anymore. I found an older package eds-dbus-1.4.0+svnr629 which I downloaded into the source folder and md5sum'ed, but BitBake ignores my pathetic attempt at hacking. It seems the svn-repository for eds-dbus was moved to a git-repository, but the patch files I downloaded seem unable to find this either.

I've set the CPP_BUILDFLAGS and tried installing previous versions of gcc as it seems Ubuntu developed a problem from Jaunty, but this didn't help at all.

Thanks in advance
Ri

[edit]
Found the git repository for the eds-dbus package but I'd hacked the recipe to pieces, so it's still not baking. Time to start fresh.

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Did I post in the wrong forum? :-\
I started from scratch; downloaded OE, skipped the Angstrom overlay and modified my local.conf a bit. So far (5 hours later, thanks to insanely high connection speeds of approx 12k/sec) the only fails have been gzip being unable to unzip expat (crc error - gzrecover and then gzip recovered file), and some md5sum mismatches. Early hours (days) yet but feeling hopeful :-)