RE: [Freeipmi-users] bitbake recipe?

[Dick.Detweiler]

Looks like it's doing it for /dev/random as well.  What would you recommend 
doing to my configure script to get passed this in the meantime?

Thanks again,
Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Albert Chu [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:25 PM
To: Detweiler, Dick [NETPWR/AVOCENT/AL]
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [Freeipmi-users] bitbake recipe?

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 11:09 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> Thanks for the response Al.  I went ahead and started a recipe off of
> other similar packages in our environment.  Configure is reporting
> this error:
> 
> checking for /dev/urandom... configure: error: cannot check for file
> existence when cross compiling
> 
> Is this something I can get around with an env variable or option
> passed into configure?

Hmmm.  This is definitely new to me.  I can only assume it's something
unique for your embedded environment (other folks that have done some
embedded porting have not hit this).

I could make a configure option to turn off checks for this.

Al

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert Chu [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:07 PM
> To: Detweiler, Dick [NETPWR/AVOCENT/AL]
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] bitbake recipe?
> 
> Hi Dick,
> 
> I don't know of one personally.  I know nothing about BitBake, other
> than the fact it is based on Gentoo's Portage.  I know that FreeIPMI has
> been packaged for Gentoo, so I'm not sure if that's a good starting
> point or not.
> 
> Al
> 
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 10:41 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am wanting to include some of the freeipmi tools into an Open
> > Embedded system.  Is there a bitbake recipe out there already or will
> > I need to generate one myself?  Googled for it without success.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory