I usually compile asterisk-beta, astlinux-trunk and astlinux-0.5 into a
VMWare Debian 4. The PC is a Dell laptop model Inspiron 650 2Gh and 1 Gb
RAM. It takes, depending if i have to download packages or actually have on
local between 45 mins and 2 hours.
Debian roolz!! ;)
Jonathan GF
On Jan 1, 2008 5:11 PM, Unmonitored <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't have trouble with Ubuntu - except in this case. I am building
> Gumstix images regularly. Last night I wanted to look at the options in
> one of the Makefiles and discovered that the Makefile calls IDENTICALLY
> named executables. Those are the same executable names that fail with
> "command not found" in the Astlinux branch I was trying to build. I
> have checked to see that the files have execute permissions. It is
> specific to the stuff I checked out.
>
> Maybe I can steal one of the gumstix executables and see if I get a clue
> when I run make...
>
> The problem with the VMWare script was with a recent Ubuntu OS. The
> script called for /bin/sh but wanted something specific from bash.
> Ubuntu had linked /bin/sh to /bin/dash and the script would fail. I
> think that both VMware and Ubuntu can share the blame on that. They
> both have made assumptions that were not legitimate.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Darrick Hartman (lists)
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 9:58 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Building with Ubuntu
>
> Unmonitored wrote:
> > I too have had problems - mostly with VMWare scripts. I did change
> the
> > symbolic link to point to bash and it didn't help with the build.
> >
> > There is something else missing. While I would prefer to use a Debian
> > based Linux OS - I can certainly leave the FC8 virtual machine around.
> > Maybe there is a clue if I open one of the executable files that seem
> to
> > fail in a hex editor...
>
> Fedora 8 definitely works. (most of the stuff should even build on a
> 64bit host--but not everything yet). If you have problems with VMWare
> scripts as well, perhaps something is corrupt on your box? Ubuntu
> should work fine. I know Kris and others have used Ubuntu in the past.
> I use either CentOS or Fedora, but nothing in the buildroot
> environment should be distro specific.
>
> If it looks like some files are missing, why don't you delete your local
>
> svn repository and grab a fresh copy (or do an svn update). You should
> do an svn update frequently anyway as changes are constantly being made.
>
> Darrick
> --
> Darrick Hartman
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> http://www.djhsolutions.com
>
>
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