Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken packages available for OpenMoko

[felix winkelmann]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Shawn Rutledge
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I managed to write a Bitbake recipe to build Chicken for
> OpenEmbedded-based Linux distributions.  I submitted it for inclusion
> into the official development tree:
>
> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4433
>

Excellent!

>
> Next I would like to figure out how to get Bitbake to cross-compile
> eggs, so that I could generate IPKs for them too, but that's a bit
> more challenging.  (I can do it manually following the wiki
> instructions, the question is how to get Bitbake to first generate
> arm-cross-chicken and then use it.)

I never used Bitbake, but are available if you have any questions,
of course. I know a bit about ipk's, though (having re-implemented
the ipkg tool recently). It should be pretty easy generating the
ipk's without bitbake, provided you have a cross-compiler.


cheers,
felix