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NiLuJe · 11-24-2019, 07:30 PM

I don't think anyone here ever went with bitbake, but I did notice that file, and that it pointed to a wonderfully outdated yocto tag

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FWIW, the current link for that is probably on https://www.yoctoproject.org/softwar...ived-releases/

People building a whole bunch of stuff have gone with BuildRoot in the past, but I've personally only ever used crosstool-ng and then basically scripted stuff myself.

If you only need a TC, and not actually a giant "build-me-a-distro" machinery, c.f., https://github.com/koreader/koxtoolchain which is basically a frontend to my setup.

If you intend to build kernel modules (and only modules), you *may* need something using a GCC version closer to what's used to build your device's kernel. I personally don't have a config for that on Kindle (but I do for Kobos).

11-24-2019, 07:30 PM	#2
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	I don't think anyone here ever went with bitbake, but I did notice that file, and that it pointed to a wonderfully outdated yocto tag . FWIW, the current link for that is probably on https://www.yoctoproject.org/softwar...ived-releases/ People building a whole bunch of stuff have gone with BuildRoot in the past, but I've personally only ever used crosstool-ng and then basically scripted stuff myself. If you only need a TC, and not actually a giant "build-me-a-distro" machinery, c.f., https://github.com/koreader/koxtoolchain which is basically a frontend to my setup. If you intend to build kernel modules (and only modules), you may need something using a GCC version closer to what's used to build your device's kernel. I personally don't have a config for that on Kindle (but I do for Kobos). Last edited by NiLuJe; 11-24-2019 at 07:35 PM.