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[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks for the info, Norman.

That worked perfectly.

I will read up on that section in the manual (which is very well done and
great job on it, I must say)

Cheers,
Lonnie


Kind Regards and have a great day,
Lonnie

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Norman Feske <norman.feske at ...1...>
wrote:

> Hi Lonnie,
>
> > not sure if it makes sense for the Genode project, but wouldn't it be a
> > good idea for the Genode project to have local copies of these types of
> > files so that compatability and building the base should not be a
> > problem anymore?  Just an idea.
> >
> > I could see that a local repository could get rather large, but the
> > upside is that the Genode users could get local copies that are known to
> > work and install properly with the latest Genode versions.
>
> we will definitely need to think of an alternative to the current status
> quo as those kind of problems continue to plague us. But until now I
> have not found a good way to go forward. Providing the downloads on
> genode.org sounds be an obvious idea. But in addition to bandwidth
> concerns, we will need to take measures to secure the integrity of the
> downloads, i.e., signing the archives. In short, I am afraid that we
> cannot come up with a short-term solution but we see the necessity for
> an improvement.
>
> > Anyway, do you have any suggestions on how to resolve the out-of-date
> > error?
>
> Assuming that you modified the download location in
> repos/libports/ports/libc.port, you will also need to adjust the
> corresponding hash at repos/libports/ports/libc.hash. Right now, the
> hash still refers to the old version of the libc. So the build system
> tries to use the (uninstalled) original version and rightfully
> complains. :-) You can update the hash file for your changed libc.port via
>
>   cd genode
>   ./tool/ports/update_hash libc
>
> Now, the build system should be able to use your version of the libc.
>
> If you want to learn more about our mechanism for incorporating
> 3rd-party software such as the libc, you may find the Sections "5.2.
> Integration of 3rd-party software" and "5.3.6. Building 3rd-party
> software" of the manual [1] helpful.
>
> [1] http://genode.org/documentation/genode-foundations-15-05.pdf
>
> Cheers
> Norman
>
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