[ELDK] Building ELDK from scratch

[Phil Terry]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:07 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <1208798748.28519.35.camel at pterry-fc6.micromemory.com> you wrote:
> > First, I had rpm problems. Mandriva uses version 4.4.6 which seems not
> > to allow non-root users to use the chroot option heavily used by ELDK so
> 
> ELDK does not use chroot at all. No part of the build process requires
> to use chroot.

Sorry, perhaps a terminology misuse.. eldk uses "rpm -r ..." a lot
this is "rpm --root=..." which internally is a chroot to the target
"..." directory.

The 4.4.6 is doing some checks around this and objecting that I'm not
superuser! It works fine if I build as root which I'm not going to
do :-) 4.4.2 is the fork where the rpm developer left redhat and there's
the whole wraptastic/rpm5.org/redhat fiasco going on...

> > Have I misunderstood something or configured something wrong or missed
> > some step in the build process?
> 
> I don't think so. Maybe you underestimated the complexity of the task
> a bit.
No, I've built embedded systems from scratch many times so I understand.
Its just as I looked at the ELDK documentation I saw all the right
approaches to handling the issues. I think I just assumed that there was
much more "manpower" and momentum behind it and that it was more robust
and developed than it is. Thats not a criticism, as an embedded
developer in many companies I understand the resource limits so I'll
happily dig in to help as much as I can I just wanted to be sure that I
wasn't missing some "inside" knowledge.

Cheers
Phil