[meta-freescale] directFB and GTK + libvivante-dfb-mx6 build error

[Daiane Angolini]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Peter <ppf83764 at freenet.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm supposed to run a WebkitGTK+ application with directFB output on an imx6
> system.
>
> I read a lot of stuff and tried some things, but I still don't know whether
> it is possible or not...
>
> When I bitbake directfb-examples into a console-image with openembedded
> (daisy), some are working fine, while others crash with a segfault.
>
> When I include "packagegroup-core-directfb" in my image, libvivante-dfb-mx6
> throws an error:
>
> Collected errors:
>  * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for
> packagegroup-core-directfb:
>  *      libvivante-dfb-mx6 *
>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package packagegroup-core-directfb.

Only to be sure.
Have you changed your DISTRO_FEATURES?
Have you tried core-image-directfb?

Daiane
>
>
> Earlier this year Otavio and Lauren stated that DFB wouldn't work with any
> newer version of DFB than 1.6.3, so my 1.6.3 should be ok for the moment,
> but maybe my recipes are simply too old. [1]
> Should I try to update to newer vivante binaries? I think 3.10.17-1.0.0 are
> used in my current setup.
>
> However I read here [2] that gtk support for directFB was dropped anyway,
> but I can't find a proper source to prove it.
>
> Could anybody please enlighten me with the current state of development and
> what's the matter with libvivante-dfb-mx6?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Peter Fink
>
> [1]:
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2014-March/007722.html
> [2]:
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/irc/%23yocto.2014-09-25.log.html#t2014-09-25T17:45:48
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