[Debian-eeepc-devel] [Angstrom-devel] [oe] Is Angstrom dead?

[Merciadri Luca]

Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Philip Balister wrote:
>   
>> On 06/01/2010 10:47 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>>     
>>> Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 06/01/2010 08:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I tried again today, updating to org.openembedded.dev branch,
>>>>>> commit a2834c64fb3ed535fca51c25547754fa907e4ca5  Sadly, new
>>>>>> problems (and probably still the old ones) remain:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> | checking for CHEESE... configure: error: Package requirements (
>>>>>> glib-2.0>=
>>>>>> 2.16.0   gobject-2.0>= 2.12.0   gio-2.0>= 2.16.0   gtk+-2.0>= 2.19.1
>>>>>> gdk-2.0>= 2.14.0 gnome-desktop-2.0>= 2.26.0   gconf-2.0>= 2.16.0
>>>>>> gstreamer-0.10>= 0.10.23   gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10>= 0.10.23
>>>>>> cairo>=
>>>>>> 1.4.0   dbus-1>= 1.0   dbus-glib-1>= 0.7 pangocairo>= 1.18.0
>>>>>> librsvg-2.0
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> = 2.18.0
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> |   libcanberra-gtk gudev-1.0) were not met:
>>>>>> |
>>>>>> | No package 'gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10' found
>>>>>> |
>>>>>> | Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>>>>>> | installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>>>>> |
>>>>>> | Alternatively, you may set the environment variables CHEESE_CFLAGS
>>>>>> | and CHEESE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>>>>>> | See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>>>>>> |
>>>>>> NOTE: package cheese-2.30.1-r0: task do_configure: Failed
>>>>>>             
>>>>>     now i'm slightly confused since neither ubuntu or fedora appear to
>>>>> have any pkgconfig info for the cheese package, so why would there be
>>>>> a test for it that you would need to override?  or is this not
>>>>> pkgconfig-related?
>>>>>           
>>>> I've no idea - all I was pointing out is that as of this morning,
>>>> there's a new failure...
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It is not dead. The problem is that there is a small linux community,
>>> and an even smaller Angström community, and, in this community, only a
>>> slight part is composed of gurus. At least, that's my POV.
>>>
>>>       
>> And as I noted on the OE list, the gurus are picking up paid work that
>> cuts into our time. This is good for Angstrom in the long term, but
>> does cut into our response times. Please feel free to step up and
>> start working through the problems, everyone starts on the path to
>> becoming a guru slowly.
>>     
> You might already realize that I am the author of Angström's manual;
> http://gitorious.org/angstrom-manual. If I had some spare time, I would
> surely participate more in the project.
>
>   


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Merciadri Luca