[Buildroot] buildroot Digest, Vol 20, Issue 13

Mon Feb 11 02:35:34 UTC 2008

Rather than make a ridiculous patch, I'll point you to an uploaded
copy of my work:
http://avr32linux.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DevelopmentTools
I can't remember what daily upstream snapshot it was based off of,
wouldn't be more than a week old though. I haven't taken the time to
sync it with the latest.

Here's a rundown of what I've done:

Added pixman, xkb_data, fonts and font-util to X.org, updated
everything to v7.3 except for the drivers (I don't use any of them)
Updated cairo, pango, glib, and gtk to the latest stable. I'm planning
to change them over to the new style makefiles later, it's much less
sloppy.
Updated the toolchain for AVR32 using the last official downstream
release of buildroot from Atmel.
Added support for kernel 2.6.24.
Added ace of penguins games (important!), cups, libsexy, webkit, fltk,
and synergy.
Many small bugfixes to other packages. There were still a lot of
packages installing to staging_dir/lib staging_dir/include. This
screws up pkgconfig badly. I fixed a lot of them, but some still
remain.
Added a patch to uClibc that I think needs fixed, to add the function
pthread_getattr_np() to allow webkit to build. It's used by the
javascipt collector functions. I think my patch actually causes webkit
to crash on pages with javascript on them. At least I tried!

I may have introduced some other new annoyances to buildroot with all
of my poking around, so don't be surprised.

There's also a couple of screen shots of Midori+WebKit running on my
AVR32 board here: http://avr32linux.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/Midori for
your viewing enjoyment.

Regards,

John Voltz

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> From: "John Voltz" <john.voltz at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Buildroot] HUGE patch for buildroot
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> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if the buildroot maintainers frequent this list, and if
> so, how do you feel about receiving a humongous patch for it? I've
> been working on bugfixes for well over a week now and I believe it's
> going to be a huge patch. It would take me weeks more to break it into
> individual patches. So far I've fixed a bunch of incorrect package
> install arguments that cause problems with pkgconfig and libtool
> resulting in build failures. I've added the X.org fonts and some other
> missing X.org packages, icu, fltk, webkit, midori, ipkg, updated
> cairo, pango, gtk, and glib to the latest versions. I also merged the
> current branch of the Atmel AVR32 buildroot architecture for that CPU.
> Is there any interest in it, or should I just keep it to myself?
>
> Kind regards,
> John Voltz
>
>
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> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:04:34 -0500
> From: Ormund Williams <ormundw at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] HUGE patch for buildroot
> To: buildroot at uclibc.org
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> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 21:28 -0500, John Voltz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm wondering if the buildroot maintainers frequent this list, and if
> > so, how do you feel about receiving a humongous patch for it? I've
> > been working on bugfixes for well over a week now and I believe it's
> > going to be a huge patch. It would take me weeks more to break it into
> > individual patches. So far I've fixed a bunch of incorrect package
> > install arguments that cause problems with pkgconfig and libtool
> > resulting in build failures. I've added the X.org fonts and some other
> > missing X.org packages, icu, fltk, webkit, midori, ipkg, updated
> > cairo, pango, gtk, and glib to the latest versions. I also merged the
> > current branch of the Atmel AVR32 buildroot architecture for that CPU.
> > Is there any interest in it, or should I just keep it to myself?
> >
> Do NOT keep it to yourself.  If the buildroot maintainers wont accept it
> and you don't have time to break it up into smaller patches, I'll do it.
>
> Thanks for the work.
>
> __
> Ormund
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:49:41 +0200 (EET)
> From: "Ivan Kuten" <ivan.kuten at promwad.com>
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] HUGE patch for buildroot
> To: "John Voltz" <john.voltz at gmail.com>
> Cc: Buildroot List <buildroot at uclibc.org>
> Message-ID: <45445.127.0.0.1.1202662181.squirrel at localhost>
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> Hi John,
>
> Of course please post your patch. Even if the patch too huge somebody will split it.
>
> Regards,
> Ivan
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm wondering if the buildroot maintainers frequent this list, and if
> > so, how do you feel about receiving a humongous patch for it? I've
> > been working on bugfixes for well over a week now and I believe it's
> > going to be a huge patch. It would take me weeks more to break it into
> > individual patches. So far I've fixed a bunch of incorrect package
> > install arguments that cause problems with pkgconfig and libtool
> > resulting in build failures. I've added the X.org fonts and some other
> > missing X.org packages, icu, fltk, webkit, midori, ipkg, updated
> > cairo, pango, gtk, and glib to the latest versions. I also merged the
> > current branch of the Atmel AVR32 buildroot architecture for that CPU.
> > Is there any interest in it, or should I just keep it to myself?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > John Voltz
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