Build Environment openSUSE 11.0

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Be sure that the followings are installed on your system:

  • gcc
  • patch
  • help2man
  • diffstat
  • texinfo
  • ncurses-devel
  • cvs
  • gawk
  • sqlite3
  • sqlite3-devel

openSUSE 11.0 and above comes with Python 2.6+ installed. So you'll need to remove it and install an older version of Python. 

$ mkdir python
$ cd python
$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.4/Python-2.5.4.tgz
$ tar xzfv Python-2.5.4.tgz
$ cd Python-2.5.4
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Install pysqlite: 

$ wget http://oss.itsystementwicklung.de/download/pysqlite/2.4/2.4.1/pysqlite-2.4.1.tar.gz
$ tar xzfv pysqlite-2.4.1.tar.gz
$ cd pysqlite-2.4.1
$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install


Now you're ready for building gumstix-oe pack. Checkuot the sources from svn: 

$ mkdir ~/gumstix 
$ cd ~/gumstix 
$ svn co http://gumstix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gumstix/trunk gumstix-oe


Gumstix OE requires some environment setup in order to function properly. There are a couple of ways to handle this requirement. 

$ cat gumstix-oe/extras/profile >> ~/.bashrc

First we create a new group called oe and add your login account to the oe group. In the second command be sure to substitute your login user name where your_username is indicated. 

$ sudo groupadd oe
$ sudo usermod -G oe your_username

Next we create the directory for the source code cache, set the group owner to the newly created oe group, and finally set permissions on the directory: 

$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chgrp oe /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chmod 0775 /usr/share/sources
$ sudo chmod ug+s /usr/share/sources

Now relogin for letting the profile take effect.

Suse users may experience some fails on building the image. So you'll need do some custom modifications: 

$ cd ~/gumstix/gumstix-oe/com.gumstix.collection/packages/
$ wget http://www.klc.net.nz/images/dbus.tar.gz
$ wget http://www.klc.net.nz/images/gmp.tar.gz
$ tar xzfv dbus.tar.gz
$ tar xzfv gmp.tar.gz

Now edit the file ~/gumstix/gumstix-oe/org.openembedded.snapshot/conf/bitbake.conf. Find the line like this: 

STAGING_ETCDIR_NATIVE = "${STAGING_DIR}/${BUILD_SYS}/etc"
STAGING_INCDIR = "${STAGING_DIR}/${HOST_SYS}/include"
STAGING_DATADIR = "${STAGING_DIR}/${HOST_SYS}/share"
STAGING_LOADER_DIR = "${STAGING_DIR}/${HOST_SYS}/loader"
STAGING_FIRMWARE_DIR = "${STAGING_DIR}/${HOST_SYS}/firmware"
STAGING_PYDIR = "${STAGING_DIR}/lib/python2.4"

Add the following line after STAGING_DATADIR = "${STAGING_DIR}/${HOST_SYS}/share" 

STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE = "${STAGING_DIR}/${BUILD_SYS}/share"

Edit the file ~/gumstix/gumstix-oe/com.gumstix.collection/conf/machine/include/gumstix.inc. Find the following fragment: 

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_bluez-utils-dbus = "bluez-utils"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_gsmd="libgsmd"

PREFERRED_VERSION_gumstix-kernel = "2.6.21"
PREFERRED_VERSION_udev = "118"
PREFERRED_VERSION_gnuplot = "4.0.0"

Add these after PREFERRED_PROVIDER_gsmd="libgsmd" 

PREFERRED_VERSION_gmp = "4.2.2"
PREFERRED_VERSION_gmp-native = "4.2.2"

PREFERRED_VERSION_dbus = "1.2.1"
PREFERRED_VERSION_dbus-native = "1.2.1"

Build the OE gumstix image: 

$ bitbake gumstix-basic-image

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