On 07/16/15 19:03, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 06:36:39 -0600 Mats Wichmann <m...@osg.samsung.com> said: > >> A while back, On 02/25/15 00:41, Du, Dolpher wrote: >>> **On behalf of Tizen development tools team and all other contributors** >>> >>> We are pleased to announce that new version of Tizen development >>> tools [15.01] is released on download.tizen.org, including the following: >> ... >>> For information about Tools repositories, refer to: >>> >>> [Tools Repository](http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/) >> >> Curious about the plans for (and also "how can we help?") support of >> newer versions of distributions. It's a pain to have to keep picking up >> new stuff I know, but sometimes we end up constrained, by new computer >> hardware, to use quite a new distribution. Personally I'm in such a >> case needing Ubuntu 15.04 to make a new laptop work. Fedora 21/22 and >> Debian 8 are in the same situation, not in the supported list. > > i just spent all of yesterday fighting with qemu, binfmt misc emulation and > simply it not running arm binaries - i used a "new" distro (arch) because i > frankly find it valuable to be able to track new sw far more easily (esp > useful > for wayland), but gbs just can't work. after many hours i've given up. > > generally imho the whole qemu "let's fake an arm system process-by-process" is > a very fragile hack. it's simply bd and makes it very hard to work with tizen > as pretty much the only thing gbs works on is some old version of ubuntu. > > it's time we dump gbs. it's far too limiting. we have to move to a pure > cross-build ala yocto. debugging qemu binfmt emulation is a nightmare - it's > pretty close to impossible, and an insane time-sink. > > if we are going to limit people to a distribution - it should be tizen itself. > > <grumble grumble grumble> :) >
ugh, that's fugglier than I thought. those of us fiddling with the rpi2 are using the yocto recpies for building, it's got some headaches but seemingly not like the above. _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@lists.tizen.org https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
