[Angstrom-devel] A couple of questions

[Junqian Gordon Xu]

AsLan^ wrote:
> It seems like there's a lot of tasks to build even a single package.  
> When I type "bitbake nano" for example, there is 294 tasks that need  
> to be completed by bitbake. Is this normal?
>   
Yes it is normal.
> And bitbake angstrom-x11-image show something like 3000 tasks that  
> need to be completed. I'm not really used to such long build times,  
> and I don't understand the development process.
My understanding is that OE is a meta-building environment, sort of 
cross-compiling-from-scratch. So it needs to build a lot of basic 
libraries and binaries in both native and cross environment.
> I wanted to try and  
> find the bug affecting the suspend/resume problems we have on Tosa  
> but now I'm quite lost.
>   
It's likely a kernel bug. Hrw knows more.
> I also tried building the angstrom-console-image and it failed after  
> a 160 tasks or so (with something like 900 remaining) after it had  
> been going for about an hour. I don't recall which package it was but  
> I think it was qemu or bochs (or something like that) which didn't  
> seem especially relevant to a zaurus image.
If it's qemu-native, try the patch in bug 2157. That patch works great 
for me on i686 host machine.