Re: [Ltib] host side questions

[Bruce]

Hey Aaron,

I have a similar question out as well. 

If you have a package that needs to use a specific version of host tools (or a new one) that may break the rest of the build if you update it, I have installed it onto my host separately from ltib. In your .spec file you can explicitly call the tool like /usr/bin/foo. Normally, ltib has it's spoof path first (in my case it's /opt/ltib/usr/bin or whatever).  So if you call 'foo' in your spec file it finds ltib's version first. Or you can pre-pend the PATH to find your tools before ltib.

You can capture the path before modifying it:

ORIG_PATH=$PATH

PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH

... use your tools...

.. Reset the path...

PATH=$ORIG_PATH

OK. Is that a hack? Sorry... But it works and confines it to just one package.

I would be careful about making a global change that affects all the package builds;) could get ugly!

Thanks,
Bruce

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Aaron Wegner <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Stuart.  I was wondering if there is a way to add a package to the host
side without modifying the following files.

ltib/config/platform/host/ltib.preconfig
ltib/config/platform/host/packages.lkc
ltib/config/platform/host/pkg_map

Also, is it possible to have a host-side spec file that is not in
dist/lfs-5.1?  I've got my build down to only having to put one new
directory into the LTIB, which is for my board, config/platform/my-board.
I like that because I can update the LTIB as much as I want and not have
to touch the files I introduced.  I guess I was thinking it might be nice
to be able to add additional stuff to the host side by putting files in a
separate area like I do for the target side with the files

config/platform/my-board/{*.spec,packages.lkc,pkg_map,defconfig}

I noticed that when configuring the host-side the LTIB will not check the
my-board directory for spec files.  I guess that makes sense since the
LTIB builds the host packages before you even select your platform, but
maybe there could be an area to put non-standard host side mods.  Also, it
seems like

./ltib --hostcf -m listpkgsbuild

returns the packages of the target side.  I have to issue the rpm command
to view the packages installed on the host side.


Thanks,

Aaron

> Hi Carolyn,
>
>    It's a different problem, we are talking about the LPC31xx NXP
> processor MMC support,
> that seems to be broken with NXP last patches (not related to MPCxxxxx)
>
>    For your case, dont know, try to make an ext2 partition (using fdisk,
> and then mkfs.ext2) on the SD
> card and put your rootfs inside, then at boot pass the boot parameters
> to kernel(for the 1st partition):
> root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootdelay=2
>
>
> Good luck!
> El 17/11/2010 17:42, Reer, Carolyn (SA-1) escribió:
>>
>> This sounds like same problem I am having:
>>
>> Has anyone booted the kernel from SDHC card?
>>
>> I have 2.6.28 kernel built for Freescale MPC8536E and booting from NFS.
>>
>> I would like to copy the kernel & file system over to SD card to
>> eliminate NFS from my Ethernet traffic timing tests.
>>
>> I have tried 2-4GB SDHC cars and they are pre-formatted with W95 FAT16
>> partitions.
>>
>> I can mount the partition:
>>
>> mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/tmp/
>>
>> But I can't write to it.
>>
>> I tried using fdisk to delete the partition and make a new linux
>> partition; tried changing the FAT16 partition to linux partition.
>>
>> But I can't save the changes.%0


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