Re: [Gumstix-users] Someone pls rm valgrind from package list, was: valgrind not built even though selected in buildroot

[<tho...@bt...>]

As far as I understood things, the gumstix buildroot tree was copied
from the main buildroot tree several years ago and adapted to work with
the gumstix. I was not aware of gumstix merging changes in the main
buildroot branch back into the gumstix buildroot tree. Does this
actually take place? If it doesn't, submitting a bug report to the main
buildroot project wont help gumstix users.

IMO, gumstix should move away from buildroot and switch to OpenEmbedded
or Debian Arm. I've attempted to get Gentoo up and running and am
ashamed to say that I have failed (certainly in the way I was trying to
make it work anyway). :-( There are other packages in buildroot which
don't make sense for the gumstix. The packages which are in buildroot
tend to be versions well over a year old. Craig is very good at version
bumping important packages when needed, but there are others which
haven't been updated at all since the initial buildroot copy.=20

Just my $.02.


Cheers,

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: gum...@li...
[mailto:gum...@li...] On Behalf Of Dave
Hylands
Sent: 03 April 2007 17:22
To: General mailing list for gumstix users.
Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Someone pls rm valgrind from package
list,was: valgrind not built even though selected in buildroot

Hi Robert,

> > I had the same problem. Valgrind only works on x86 not ARM.
>
> Well, I wonder what it is doing in the Gumstix buildroot, then,
> since Gumstix are all ARM processors, from what I know.

Yeah but buildroot is an open-source project and it supports many
different types of processors, not just the gumstix.
<http://buildroot.uclibc.org/>

> Maybe someone who has the authority to do so can either
> cut valgrind from the buildroot package list, or else
> put a note on it like "(X86 ONLY)" or something, to prevent
> anyone from getting their hopes up.

Perhaps you could file a bug report with the buildroot folks.

--=20
Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/

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