[OE stablebranch] some issues I encountered during building navit

[Gordon]

On 05/31/2008 10:06 AM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently I have been trying to build navit (from cvs) for my H2210 ipaq
> for the Angstrom 2007.12 distro.
> 
> http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Navit_on_Angstrom has a small
> writeup of what I did to make things work.

Thanks, I will keep an eye on the page.

> 
> Locale generation was disabled to work around a qemu compilation issue.

This is a know issue for qemu if the host gcc is 4.x.x

> 
> dbus 1.2.1 was necessary to work around this bug
> http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4334
> 
> Then there's a GCC 4.3.x workaround for gmp.
> See http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3378 for my source.

Known issue for stable if host gcc is 4.3.x. Not a general solution 
though, as earlier gcc doesn't take the --allow-multiple-definition option.

> 
> Then the `bitbake navit` works.
> 
> 
> Remaining issue is the bug at
> http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4348
> There are a number of QA issues. How can these be explained?
> And better: how can these be fixed?

Known issue, see my other email.

When the new OE website is up, we will document these known stable 
branch issues better. Thanks for the heads up.

Regards
Gordon