Wiki needs to be updated for building from git

1st Official Post

    To: LibreELEC Wiki maintainers

    Can someone please update the Wiki for building LibreELEC from source.

    The following entries for building for RaspberryPi1 (the target I am building for) is incorrect and throws an error.

    In LibreELEC Wiki as of 16/04/2017:

    Code
    PROJECT=RPi ARCH=arm

    This should be:

    Code
    PROJECT=RPi DEVICE=RPi ARCH=arm

    If you don't include the new "DEVICE=" field the build script throws an error.

    Examples:

    Code
    # This will throw an error


PROJECT=RPi ARCH=arm make image


    Code
    # This works for RaspberryPi1 Target


PROJECT=RPi DEVICE=RPi ARCH=arm make image


    I haven't tested the other combinations/targets.

    Please update the LibreELEC Wiki so that it shows the current syntax for the different targets.

    Link to out-of-date page:

    Compile - LibreELEC

    Thank you for your assistance.

    • Official Post

    J876

    Please (if you like) feel free to create a Wiki account. So you are able to contribute. We always love to get some help regarding to contributions on our wiki. ;)

    I have Raspberry Pi 3. Ubuntu Desktop 16.04.02 LTS

    PROJECT=RPi DEVICE=RPi2 ARCH=arm make image <--- using this code does not work for me on 8.0.1 version. It gave me error as "please specify your Device." However, it works if i compile on Master, version 9.x

    I can only use this code to compile 8.0.1, PROJECT=RPi2 ARCH=arm make image

    Just wondering any different between the two codes? Thanks

    Hi,

    What is the purpose of "rm -rf /home/user/.ccache-libreelec/" in step #9? thread-7848.html

    Per Mod Klojum, " LibreELEC has no "/home" folder to begin with. So I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve with deleting a totally non-existent folder and its subfolders."

    Thank you for taking the time to write in wiki. It's very helpful.

    ccache is compiler cache which speeds up recompilation. In your case it is /home/Eva/.ccache-libreelec.
    But in master branch this folder is inside build folder (build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.0-devel/.ccache for example). Seems another thing to fix in wiki.
    [hr]
    Ccache folder in master is build.LibreELEC-..........-9.0-devel/.ccache. It is good to remove it when some kernel is bumped or if some package doesn't build but on previous build it was.

    Edited once, last by vpeter (April 27, 2017 at 8:06 PM).