My feedback about Geexbox sources build

[c00lerMember]

Hi,

I built Geexbox sources successfully under a Fedora environment so I share how I did if someone is interested :

1- I installeded Fedora 19 XFCE.
2- I did a yum groupinstall "“Development Tools” "C Development Tools and Libraries"
3- I did a yum install java (required after I started the compilation)
4- Go to /home/user and then clone the Geexbox sources by hg clone http://hg.openbricks.org/geexbox
5- Do an update to point to 3.1 version with a hg update geexbox-3.1
6- Load a default config to test with a ./scripts/loadcfg geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic (you can check for available platforms by a ./scripts/loadcfg list and choose the one you want, remeber that geexbox runs on many platforms)
7- make (it will take a lot of time depending on your processor speed and internet connexion).

Once done, you’ll have a .iso file to install in your HTPC.

I would like to thank the Geexbox team who did a great job and Thomas Genty (tomlohave) for the precious and quick support during my compilation (Merci beaucoup ? )

Good luck

[lpraderiMember]

Hi,
Want to use a lightweight enviroment to build geexbox inside a Virtualbox VM.
1 – Downloaded Fedora XFCE 20 Spin Live ISO (and install to virtual drive).
2 – Yum Install both groups you mention and Java
3 – Yum Install hg,patch and wget
4 – hg clone repo and update to 3.1
5 – load default config for my test HTPC ./scripts/loadcfg geexbox-xbmc-x86_64-generic
6 – Make Fails with this missing files

[root@localhost geexbox]# make
scripts/rootfs
**** Your system lacks the following tools needed to build OpenBricks ****
/usr/include/readline/readline.h /usr/include/ncurses.h
**** You seem to use a fedora system ****
would you like to yum install the needed tools ? (y/n) y
Loaded plugins: langpacks
No package libreadline6-dev available.
No package libncurses5-dev available.
Error: Nothing to do
make: *** [rootfs] Error 1

Checked both ncurses and readline and seems to be installed
Installed Packages

Name : ncurses
Arch : i686
Version : 5.9

Name : readline
Arch : i686
Version : 6.2
Release : 8.fc20

Any clue ?

[c00lerMember]

Hi,

You miss the -devel packages, try :

yum install *ncurse* *readline*

this must fix the problem.

let me know if it helps ?

[Warped RudiModerator]

Be aware that the source code is now hosted at: https://github.com/OpenBricks

[lpraderiMember]

Thanks for the reply.

@cooler: Did both, yum install ncurses and readline yum says latest package already installed,
but still can’t find ncurses.h or readline.h on /usr/include.

@Warped Rudi: Noticed that and made both repo under /home hg clone (geexbox) and git clone (openbricks) … both makefile gives me the same error of ncurses and readline not installed (Fedora 20 XFCE Spin).

Edit: [Solved] miss the * on yum install , as cooler says I was missing -dev packages.
Make menuconfig worked ok , and first test compilation is running.
Thank you.-

[c00lerMember]

Sorry but maybe I said it the wrong way, you must do

yum install ncurses-devel readline-devel

Hope this time is clear and it helps

[lpraderiMember]

New problem arises:

 Installing mpc (1.0.1-1devx86_64) to root...
Configuring mpc.
                             INSTALLDEV  linux-headers  
                                 PACKAGEDEV  linux-headers  
                                     BUILD    linux-headers  
ccache already installed, skipping...
make already installed, skipping...
                                         CLEAN    linux  
                                         UNPACK   linux  
xz: (stdin): Unexpected end of input
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

after 30 minutes compilation stops with this error about linux package , sorry but need more help here.

[tomlohaveModerator]

maybe an error when you have downloaded sources archive for linux.
try this :

from geexbox/openbricks tree

rm sources/linux -rf
rm .stamps/linux -rf
make

[lpraderiMember]

Hello again,

I will need some help to build python 2.7 UCS4 opkg instead UCS2 for i386 and x64.
Maybe build with this option: -enable-unicode=ucs4

Will be something like this, but dont know exact sintax and
wich makefile mod to enable compile option:

./scripts/loadcfg geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic
./scripts/package Python_2.7.1-1_i686

Thanks in advance, Lpraderi.-

[tomlohaveModerator]

have to test before
Thanks for the info.

[lpraderiMember]

Finally I have success on compiling a single Package,
it took a moderated amount of time and effort (tested for i386 will do x64 later).
If anyone interested here are the steps needed for Virtualbox:

1 – Downloaded Fedora XFCE 20 Spin Live ISO (and install to virtual drive - 2.33 Gb).
2 – Instead of Yum Install Development Tools just installed strictly the needed ones.
  - wget, patch, bison, flex, gcc-c++ (g++), libstdc++-static, perl-Data-Dumper and git (3.74 Gb) 
3 – git clone openbricks repo 
4 - load default config for my test HTPC "./scripts/loadcfg geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic" (4.46 Gb)
5 - run "./scripts/package $PackageName"
5b - In this case I need to add a compile option to Python so an extra step prior package build ...
   - Edit /packages/python/Python/build and add to "do_configure " the needed option
   -  "--enable-unicode=ucs4"
   - save and run "./scripts/package Python"
6 - Package and dependencies will be stored in /binaries/binaries.$ARCH/packages (14.6 Gb) :-O

Will replace opkg, test and report.
Regards.-

[tomlohaveModerator]

yes
I’m not sure it will have no impact on other packages that depend on python

[lpraderiMember]

Replaced opkg Python_2.7.1-1_i686 with ucs4 version,
now xbmc GUI keep restarting in a endless loop.
Will do a full OS Build and recheck dependencies.

 
 * print_dependents_warning:    python-beautifulsoup
 * print_dependents_warning:    xbmc
 * print_dependents_warning:    python-simplejson
 * print_dependents_warning:    cryptopy
 * print_dependents_warning:    python-lsb-release
 * print_dependents_warning:    boost

[tomlohaveModerator]

well, I think this change can be very invasive. it needs to be tested with a build from scratch

[lpraderiMember]

doing it … started 8 hours ago … will update when ready …
Just a minor update on Build setup for full .iso :

Yum Install byacc, ncurses-devel, readline-devel and lzma.

HDD space needed for Python Package Build:
——————————————
build.i386.eglibc folder size 9.46 GB
build.x86_64.eglibc folder size 11.3 GB

HDD space needed for Full .iso Build:
————————————-
build.i386.eglibc folder size 24.7 GB and growing … not finished yet.
build.x86_64.eglibc folder size ?? (will do later).

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