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

Peter ppf83764 at freenet.de
Thu Nov 27 07:19:29 PST 2014


Am 27.11.2014 um 15:42 schrieb 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?

Yes I added:
DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "x11 wayland"
DISTRO_FEATURES += "directfb"

> Have you tried core-image-directfb?

No, because it was missing for some reason. But after re-adding it, it 
gives the same error.

Peter

> 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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