Re: Orocos integration in buildroot

2013/2/1 Peter Soetens <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Willy Lambert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2013/1/28 Charles Lesire-Cabaniols <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/1/23 Willy Lambert <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/1/22 Philippe Hamelin <[email protected]>:
>>>> > 2013/1/22 Willy Lambert <[email protected]>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hi all,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> for some time ago, Philippe Hamelin pointed me to his git repo with
>>>> >> Orocos integrated in Buildroot in the aim to fit in a low performance
>>>> >> devices :
>>>> >> https://github.com/phamelin/buildroot/tree/2011.05-sm
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I spent some time to play with Buildroot with the aim of reducing my
>>>> >> rootfs from 2GB to something like 200Mb.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I'm now ready with buildroot and I'm attacking the Orocos packaging
>>>> >> from Philippe's work. I would like to post patches to buildroot about
>>>> >> Orocos integration. Does anyone care about this ?
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm glad to hear that it serves someone else.
>>>> >
>>>> >>
>>>> >> @Philippe, was there any reason why you did not post you work back to
>>>> >> Buildroot ? (Technical problems ? Time ? Paches refused ? )
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > Time as usual :-)
>>>> >
>>>> > Philippe
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I seems that boost is now existing in new buildroot versions.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In order to pur Orocos in Buildroot I need a way to get Orocos
>>>> sources. The options are :
>>>> _ a git link to a .git file (would be :
>>>> git://gitorious.org/orocos-toolchain/rtt.git for instance, but is this
>>>> branch stable ?)
>>>
>>>
>>> You have to point to the last stable release. Today it's toolchain-2.6. Bug
>>> fixes are directly applied to this branch when needed.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> _ a direct link to a source tarball  (would be :
>>>> http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~orocos/pub/stable/toolchain/, but what
>>>> about minor patches ...)
>>>>
>>>> Any idea about the best solution ?
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>>
>> I managed to get sources and start building them.
>>
>> I currently have a build error in rtt/ExecutionEngine.cpp, that's
>> certainly due to the -fno-exeption option given to gcc. The are 2
>> questions around this :
>> _ is it possible to build Orocos without exeptions ?
>
> No. Boost depends on it too heavily, last time I checked. I abandoned
> supporting this compiler flag after this fact. Older boost versions
> (like 1.32 ? 1.36 ?) still allowed this but even so, there would still
> be some work to do.
>
>> _ is there any other code that could rely on exeptions that compiled
>> that I could take as an example to propose a patch if this is an
>> unexpected error.
>
> As you might have found out, it's
> #ifdef OROBLD_OS_NOEXCEPTIONS
> //bail out
> #else
> // existing exception code
> #endif

Thanks for pointing (and no I didn't find that ^^). Should I have a
look at correcting it, or is should I clean this option out ?
>
> But boost will be your first target...
>
> Peter
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