SL5500:OZ 3.3.6pre1 & OPIE 1.1.4 Snapshot preload custom

[elvis]

4G to compile what at the end will be ~32 M of executables, etc? Wow.

Anyways, I can understand your frustration but perhaps you\'d best consider many OZ users are not programmers. I dabble in programming as part of my job (research, engineering, radar,  signal processing) but I don\'t have enough knowledge of QT nor the time to learn it well enough to be of any use.

I am looking forward to the 3.5.x version of OZ hoping I will finally be able to use my PDA as it was intended. You guys do a great job!

[ironstorm]

4G to compile what at the end will be ~32 M of executables, etc? Wow.

Anyways, I can understand your frustration but perhaps you\'d best consider many OZ users are not programmers. I dabble in programming as part of my job (research, engineering, radar,  signal processing) but I don\'t have enough knowledge of QT nor the time to learn it well enough to be of any use.

I, like you, am not a C coder...  being a java consultant, I dabble in Java....  

I am in awe at the thought of trying to corral 4GB of source into a 16 MB ROM + kernel... it must be, er... fun... (perhaps a bit time consuming too)

[zenyatta]

I\'ll see if I can use my employer\'s broadband connection. Time to talk to the boss & cash in some favors...

z.

[Stubear]

The OE wiki has recently been updated and now the directions to start compiling apps is much easier to understand and use.

Within 10 minutes I had OE cloned from BK and was ready to start compiling - took quite a while to get the cross-compiler toolchain compiled, but now I\'m ready to start compiling and testing packages on my C760.

Have a couple of questions about the config file, but the people on IRC generally have been able to give answers to my questions.

Check out the OE wiki - you\'ll be pleasantly surprised if you haven\'t been there in the last few weeks

Stu

[lardman]

Oh, so the toolchain can now be compiled by OE?

Does it have f77 by default or will I have to do some editting (I had to remove all of my old stuff due to space issues).

One more thing, the old getting started said you had to make patcher amongst other things. Is this no longer the case? I\'m actually finding the new instructions confusing after having used the old ones ;-)


Si

[Stubear]

I tried the old instructions and they had you downloading a toolchain first, gave up on that as there were a bunch of incosintencies in my toolchain.

Went back to OE wiki the other day and the instructions have been revamped - no need to download the toolchain, just download the oe and packages set from BK, edit local.conf and oemake <package>, OE then goes and makes all the packages needed to meet <package>\'s dependancies.

I started with oemake gnupg and it created the toolchain for me. I took a while, and I haven\'t had a chance to try gnupg on my Z yet.

Just check the build area and gcc-3.4.0-cross contains f771. f771 --version gives

Code: [Select]

(gcc-3.4GNU F77 version 3.4.0 (arm-linux)

    compiled by GNU C version 3.3.3 20040412 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3-r6, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6).

GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=64 --param ggc-min-heapsize=64393.0)

Stu

[lardman]

Cool,

I\'ve just started an \'oemake world\' on my Linux box......


Si

[Mickeyl]

Us poor Zaurus people will still have to download the ancient 2.95.3 just for the kernel builds. OE takes care of building the other toolchains.

[lardman]

I thought there was a patch to allow GCC 3.x to be used for the kernel?

Or has this not been included yet?


Si

[Mickeyl]

Attempts have been made, but I\'m not sure why it hasn\'t been completed. Lack of interest, possibly.
Then again, 2.6.5 just started to get some movement, so maybe in a couple of months, we have kernel with a future (_if_ the kernel developers cooperate with mainline).

[lpotter]

Do tell... where did you get an earlier version compiled w/ GCC 3.3.2 that works or did you manage to install libcompat?  

If you describe the procedure and it proves more reliable that what\'s on the initrd now, I\'d be happy to implement it...  as even I have the occasional CF hick-up, which I work usually around by cartctl suspend, zaurus suspend, zaurus resume...

I compiled them..

placed them here

http://handhelds.org/~llornkcor/devZone/ho...l-strongarm.ipk
and
http://handhelds.org/~llornkcor/devZone/pc...l-strongarm.ipk

[zenyatta]

Following Mickey\'s terse but correct instructions, I\'ve set up OE at work and it\'s now chugging along, building opie-image. Snags I\'ve hit so far:

- glibc complained of LD_LIBRARY_PATH containing a reference to the present directory. My ~/.bash_profile was the culprit. Turns out glibc configure script doesn\'t like LD_LIBRARY_PATH starting or ending with \":\" or containing \"::\" (same goes for semicolons). It also chokes on LD_LIBRARY_PATH entries containing \".\".

- mtd was looking for a 20040618 snapshot when 20040611 was the freshest one available. I tweaked mtd.oe.

- an FTP connection to ftp.debian.org timed out. OE tried another IP address right away and it worked (not really a snag but a few minutes\' loss nevertheless).

I really like the caching part - when the build fails, I just fix it, re-start and it picks up where it left off. Something I don\'t like that much is the reliance on other people\'s servers. I have to remind myself that the alternative would mean downloading all those packages manually. I\'m simply not used to this level of pampering .

Great work. Hats off to all OE developers.

z.

[wildbill]

Has anyone gotten the D-Link DCF-660W working with 3.3.6-pre1?  I\'ve added the lines to the /etc/pcmcia/config file:

card \"D-Link DCF-660W\"
manfid 0x601, 0x0005
bind \"orinoco_cs\"

stopped and started the pcmcia service and ejected/inserted the DCF-660W and it still gets recognized as a Zcomax XI-325H and no network.

That and of course there\'s no wep configuration available in the network config utility.