Re: ipkg dependency problems

Hi Neal,

Neil Williams wrote:
> I'm trying to test gpe-expenses on my iPAQ (h3900) prior to the first
> release. I'm unable to build anything in the familiar-build using
> bitbake and OE on amd64 and I am also unable to build the entire
> gpe-image on i386 using OE itself. I don't have sufficient disc space on
> i386 to build both the OE and familiar-build trees.

sounds like a public build box would be good to have. Someone should remind me
of that after OEDEM. :-)

> My problem is dependencies. The i386 OE build has led to .ipk files that
> are well in advance of Familiar 0.84 library versions - libglib-2.0 is
> 2.12 when the iPAQ has 2.6. That was OK, I built libglib-2.0 and
> upgraded. libqof1_0.7.2 is now installed on my 0.84 Familiar iPAQ.

> When I tried to install gpe-expenses, the Gtk and libgpewidget
> dependencies were just too many to try upgrading (and risking breakage
> elsewhere). The disparity can only come from the build environment - the
> code itself does not require the v.latest Gtk related libraries.
> 
> Can I pin the OE build to certain dependencies?

The distributions usually do exactly this, so if you build with the same
"DISTRO" setting like your image is (i guess that would be "familiar-0.8.4") you
should get the correct versions of the dependencies.

Greetings

Florian

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