RE: [Freeipmi-users] bitbake recipe?

[Albert Chu]

Hey Dick,

Other than commenting/deleting to checks in the ./configure script, I'm
not quite sure.

Out of my curiosity, what embedded system are you building on, just so I
(and google searchers) know in the future about this issue.

Al

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 11:28 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> 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,
> > > 
> > > Dick Detweiler |Senior Software Engineer, MSD | Avocent | USA
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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory