[meta-mentor] build meta-mentor

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> You should be safe modifying layers_default to a more minimal set, otherwise
> you're free to use other setup scripts, e.g. the standard oe-init-build-env
> from poky or oe-core, and add meta-mentor to your bblayers.conf manually.
>
> Thanks, and let me know how it goes. I'll look into whittling that default
> layer set down to match up with the README when we have the time to do so.

thanks for your reply.  I am trying to build meta-mentor against
oe-core. This is mostly educational only, and i am trying to build a
qemuarm core-image-minimal with DISTRO="mel", and I am not able to
build.

some notes:

 1- meta-mentor requires meta-yocto layer (as MEL is based on POKY
distro), and it's not mentioned in the README file. which I believe is
a Yocto project compliance issue.
 2- meta-mentor "master" branch, no longer works with oe-core "master"
: lttng has been upgraded, as such meta-mentor .bbappend fails now.
there should be a "dylan" branch now. The README in meta-mentor indeed
mentions oe-core  "master"
 3- after locally fixing #1 and #2, i get some compilation error
(libpcre) when building -minimal image.
 4- I also suspect that you might need that change in  meta-mentor README:

diff --git a/README b/README
index 918317a..8e6cbbe 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This layer depends on:
 URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
 Branch: master

-URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
+URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/meta-oe
 Revision: master


My current config is the following:

Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.19.0"
BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.04"
TARGET_SYS        = "arm-mel-linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE           = "qemuarm"
DISTRO            = "mel"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "7.0+snapshot-20130502"
TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv5 thumb dsp"
TARGET_FPU        = "soft"
meta              = "dylan:94e3f18214e2e35076c52ed27252073f788ec01f"
meta-yocto
meta-yocto-bsp    = "dylan:789b2b7e0cca404ff8ba8ed5ba823d215e6ba5b4"
meta-mentor       = "master:9a3c08c80d7f0dbb36d12bb6f18ebc3681c1b3c7"

cheers

nico