Compiling software in efw 2.4.1

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[coanda]

I'm totally new to EFW but not to Linux or compiling software. I've read forum posts that say to install build-essential with smart but when I try to do that I get " error: 'build-essential' matches no packages ", I thought perhaps I need to add some channels (which I assume is smart nomenclature for repositories) but I can't find any documentation on how to do that or where to find them.

Searching for gcc, make, or the kernel headers comes up empty, but I guess that they're in the development channel if I ever find it. I'm running on an Atom processor and don't really want to set up a toolchain for cross-compiling on my x86_64 desktop.

Any help would be great, thanks.

[coanda]

Apparently the command efw-upgrade lets you choose a development version which might have the tools that I need but when I ran that command it asked me for a user name and I didn't realize that it wanted one for the site it was connecting to. Anyways, now efw-upgrade fails to locate the file that it needs and I can't find where you would go to reset this tool.

Does anyone have any idea where I would go to clear out the settings that I made running efw-upgrade the first time?

[coanda]

No man page, no --help output, not really much in the way of useful documentation on how to do some of this. I guess what can you really expect from a community version.

Turns out that "efw-upgrade -s" will let you re-select the channel to use.

Moving on, turns out that no matter what I use for a username on either the production or development channel I get the same errors, I read something that said to use your email address but this is all that I get:

Code:

root@fw1:~ # efw-upgrade -s
Please choose the appropriate channel for your environment and hit [ENTER]:
1) Production (stable releases)
2) Development (bleeding edge)
2
Please enter your username and hit [ENTER]:
email@address


Loading cache...
Updating cache...                                                            ############################################################################################################# [100%]

Fetching information for 'efw-community'...                                                                                                                                                      
-> h t t p : / / email@address:*@updates.endian.org / devel / repodata / repomd.xml                                                                                                                 
repomd.xml                                                                                                                                                                                 [ 25%]
error: Failed acquiring release file for 'efw-community':                                                                                                                                        
error: h t t p : / / email%40address:community@updates.endian.org / devel / repodata / repomd.xml: The requested URL returned error: 401

Updating cache...                                                            ############################################################################################################# [100%]

Channels have no new packages.
ERROR: Error during upgrade

Sorry, I had to mangle the link text because the forum says that I can't post clickable links.

[coanda]

Turns out that you have to register at endian.com/en/community/efw-updates/, but I stll get "channels have no new packages" so I don't think this is the solution that I'm looking for.

[coanda]

No updates available on either channel.

On the sourceforge page I found the package EFW-COMMUNITY-2.4.1-devel-srpm-rpms.tar.gz that has the rpm files that I need but when you try to install them you get

Code:

root@fw1:~/EFW-COMMUNITY-2.4.1-201011120951/DEVEL_RPMS # rpm -ivh *
error: Failed dependencies:
	libtool is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	ncurses-devel is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	libselinux-devel is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	glibc-headers is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	kernel-devel is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	kernel-smp-devel is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	rpm-build is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	procinfo is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	busybox is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	newt-devel is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	libsmooth is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	kernel-PAE-devel is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	zlib-devel is needed by build-essential-0.4-endian3.i586
	glibc-devel >= 2.2.90-12 is needed by gcc-3.4.6-10.endian8.i586
	glibc-devel >= 2.2.90-12 is needed by gcc4-4.1.2-14.endian1.i586

Another forum eluded to the fact that the developers didn't want to give out these packages but that seems pretty dumb to me. Does anyone know where I can find these rpms?

[coanda]

I individually installed the devel rpms but had to --nodeps on gcc and build-essential but now I need the kernel headers to be able to compile a module for my kernel. I'd ask for help again but by the activity in this forum I'd say that's pretty much pointless, I'm reading 6 month old posts from people asking the same questions that appear to have been abandoned altogether. At this point I'm just trying to provide information for the next sorry sap that's trying to figure this out.

[coanda]

It's starting to look like the last version of Endian that you could get the kernel-devel package for was 2.2. That's pretty stupid if you ask me.