[Icon-tech] RE: Developer Update

Thu Nov 12 12:02:49 MST 2009

I think you have the wrong version of IPK utils, but I'm not sure.  I have an updated version that uses the new version of ar, but it looks like it isn't being called.  I'll try and give more info once I can check on it.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] On Behalf Of Nick Gawronski
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:40 AM
To: Icon-tech at mulcahy.ws
Subject: Re: [Icon-tech] RE: Developer Update

Hi, Is there possibley any other issue that is causing my system not to 
build ipk files?  Anything else I should check?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael McDonald" <mmcdonald at aph.org>
To: "Icon technical discussions." <icon-tech at mulcahy.ws>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 6:20 AM
Subject: RE: [Icon-tech] RE: Developer Update

> In the version of binutils you are installing, the executables are 
> renamed.  So ar is called arm-poky-linux-ar.  If you look in /usr/bin, 
> everything starting with arm-poky-linux is from that version of binutils.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] 
> On Behalf Of Nick Gawronski
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:29 PM
> To: icon-tech at mulcahy.ws
> Subject: Re: [Icon-tech] RE: Developer Update
>
> Hi, Is the ar program included with the binutils package and sence the 
> first
> release of developer on 10/07 is there any other upgraded packages we 
> should
> install?  If I login to the console and type ar I get the busybox message.
> What programs are included with binutils as it looks like the busybox ones
> are being used instead of the binutils ones in the packages.  This might 
> be
> the reason ipk files are not building on my device and yes I have rebooted
> the device before doing these tests.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Keith Watson" <tk.watson at verizon.net>
> To: "'Nick Gawronski'" <nick at nickgawronski.com>; "'Icon technical
> discussions.'" <icon-tech at mulcahy.ws>
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 5:08 PM
> Subject: RE: [Icon-tech] RE: Developer Update
>
>
>> Nick,
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Some more issues I just found with the latest version of developer 
>> are
>> that if you wish to use one of the lessons as a base for a new project so
>> you don't have to write the same code over again. there is no way to
>> rename
>> everything you have to go into the files and rename them individually.
>> There
>> is also no way to delete a file from a project once it is added.  I
>> was trying to take the lesson1 project and turn it into a project called
>> hello world so it would be listted as hello world rather then lesson 1. 
>> I
>> had to go into the file explorer and rename all files to .txt edit them
>> then
>>
>> rename them back including copying the code I had changed into the
>> directory.
>>
>> Try this. Create a new project called "hello". From the file manager go 
>> to
>> the hard drive -> projects -> lesson_1 and copy the lesson_1.py file from
>> there into projects/hello, delete hello.py and rename lesson_1.py to
>> hello.py and you are golden. As for deleting a file from the project, I
>> don't see that functionality from within developer. But you can always go
>> to
>> projects on the hard drive and delete it from there with the file 
>> manager.
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>> Also, There is no way to build an ipk file with this release.
>>
>> I just created a new project. Added one line, saved the file. Went to the
>> projects menu and said create ipkg. I looked in the /media/hdd/projects
>> directory and there was my .ipk file. Not sure why you are having an
>> issue.
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>> I have all of the packages installed from the first developer release 
>> just
>> updated developer by reflashing and reinstalling all packages again from
>> the
>>
>> packages directory.  I tried all of the lessons and could not get an .ipk
>> file built even when it told me that the ipk file was in the projects
>> directory I looked in each project's directory and even in the root of 
>> the
>> projects directory. Listing packages if you install them in the installer
>> or having options to remove them would really be nice preferabley both.
>>
>> You don't have to re-flash the unit to install the new developer. Go to
>> manage software (menu 6,9) remove the old developer and from the file
>> manager install the new one. Much less hassle. And creating the ipk
>> package
>> does not install it. It just creates the package. Therefore you will not
>> see
>> it on the manage software list.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ken Perry" <kperry at aph.org>
>> To: "Icon technical discussions." <icon-tech at mulcahy.ws>
>> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 1:41 PM
>> Subject: [Icon-tech] RE: Developer Update
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It also has a function list in the editor if you are in a source file 
>>> and
>>> do
>>>
>>> Control - l
>>>
>>> It will list all the functions in that source file.
>>>
>>> You can then hit enter on the function name and it will drop you into 
>>> the
>>> source at that point.
>>>
>>>
>>> Paragraph movement keys now move from function to function.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws]
>>> On Behalf Of Michael McDonald
>>> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 8:11 AM
>>> To: Icon technical discussions.
>>> Subject: [Icon-tech] Developer Update
>>>
>>> An update to developer is up.  It fixes some of the bugs and has some
>>> improvements to the editor:
>>>
>>> http://tech.aph.org/mm/files/levelstar-developer_2.1.1-r0_arm.ipk
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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