Re: [Gumstix-users] cross-compiling/bitbake headaches

[Scott E. <sc...@ju...>]

I think you are making things difficult for yourself with those
instructions.

Gumstix has instructions on their site for setting up a cross-build
environment

http://www.gumstix.org/software-development/open-embedded/61-using-the-open-embedded-build-system.html


If you don't want to use the gumstix instructions, then I recommend the
Angstrom instructions

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom


I use systems set up both ways and they work. I use the Angstrom setup
for beagleboard work, but I've heard others say they use this for
gumstix too. A different repo, some shuffling of directory layouts,
that's about the only difference. 

uclibc is non-standard for gumstix. If you are using a downloaded
rootfs image, then the software on it will have been built with glibc.

Either of those two instruction links will set you up for glibc.

When it comes time to build using a bitbake command, start with

bitbak gcc

That's what I do for machines that I am only using to cross-build my own
code. Takes a little while, but much less then building a rootfs image.

Ubuntu 10.10 will give you the fewest problems right now. Ubuntu 11.04
needs a little recipe tweaking. Nothing big and it does work.

Scott

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