Building your own ROM

[EarthnFire78]

Thanks for the reminder! I've been running an ext partition for a while now, so that won't be an issue. Is your ROM the only CM7 ROM for our phone that requires an ext partition? It's really so useful, I don't know why more ROMs don't use a script like that.

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What the scripts does is keep the data/delvik-cache on the data partition, but moves everything else to the sd-ext. I also mounts the data partition as the sd-ext and the sd-ext as the data, this helps with boot time and keeps the download apps stable. I'm also still pushing changes to my repo, well be done by tomorrow morning.

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

Earthnfire, I just tried to sync with your repo, and I got this error:

error: revision refs/heads/master in manifests not found

What do you make of this?

 

[thewraith420]

Earthnfire, I just tried to sync with your repo, and I got this error:

error: revision refs/heads/master in manifests not found

What do you make of this?

I think you forgot to specify gingerbread branch

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[EarthnFire78]

Earthnfire, I just tried to sync with your repo, and I got this error:

error: revision refs/heads/master in manifests not found

What do you make of this?

Try it again, I'm running the repo sync right now and everything is syncing just fine.

$ repo init -u git://github.com/Earthnfire78/android.git -b gingerbread
$ repo sync -j(number of threads per-cpu core)

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

Try it again, I'm running the repo sync right now and everything is syncing just fine.

$ repo init -u git://github.com/Earthnfire78/android.git -b gingerbread
$ repo sync -j(number of threads per-cpu core)

Okay, I'm pretty sure that I specified gingerbread, but I could be wrong. I'll try it again. Thanks!

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[EarthnFire78]

Okay, I'm pretty sure that I specified gingerbread, but I could be wrong. I'll try it again. Thanks!

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I'm going to run the repo sync all the way through, but that error happens if repo cannot find the tagfix.py file in order to read the default.xml file. Most of the time it is do to repo init -u "URL" not entered right. It is case sensitive.

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

I'm going to run the repo sync all the way through, but that error happens if repo cannot find the tagfix.py file in order to read the default.xml file. Most of the time it is do to repo init -u "URL" not entered right. It is case sensitive.

Yeah, I figured it out. I added a -g flag instead of -b.

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[flapjack.fiasco]

I'm having a lot of trouble trying to sync, and I think most of it stems from my less than ideal internet access. I live in a rural part of Florida, and the only available service is AT&T's slowest speed of DSL. My connection resets infrequently, but it does so 2 or 3 times a day. I need to learn more about how git works, because I imagine, and I could be wrong, that it's possible to download parts of a repo separately. Does anyone know how to sync a repo piece by piece? I see that in the initial sync, an android.git file is referenced. Does this contain a list of all the parts needed? Or am I way off base here?

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[EarthnFire78]

Yeah you can do it that way, and the command would be:

git clone "URL address of what you want to clone"

If you are going in that direction, the I would fork the repositories and clone from you own git that way you can push changes back when ever needed.

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

Looks like I've got a lot of reading to do. I don't know how to fork or clone. I'm gonna read what I can find, but on the off chance that you know off the top of your head, is there a guide somewhere out there on learning git and repo as it relates to use in building android specifically? Or is there a particular tutorial you can recommend? Thanks again for your help so far!

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[EarthnFire78]

Looks like I've got a lot of reading to do. I don't know how to fork or clone. I'm gonna read what I can find, but on the off chance that you know off the top of your head, is there a guide somewhere out there on learning git and repo as it relates to use in building android specifically? Or is there a particular tutorial you can recommend? Thanks again for your help so far!

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github.com has a guide for using git that is pretty easy to follow, and repo is a program released by Google for pulling in different repositories.

Using Repo and Git

 

[flapjack.fiasco]

I found this site, which I'm currently using to teach myself git:

http://gitimmersion.com/

Makes you use git in a variety of scenarios. Very hands on, so you can see what the git commands you're using actually do.

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[thekraven]

Pages 20 -40 of this thread covers some good stuff from jerryscript and bobzhomes about pulling, merges, and pushing changes. Plus it covers kernel building.

Just for reference, I use these mostly :
git status
git add
git commit -a -m "say whatever changes are made"
git cherry-pick
git revert
git reflog
git reset --hard
git push/pull/or merge
git checkout -b newbranchname
git branch -a
git diff

 

[sellers86]

I found this site, which I'm currently using to teach myself git:

http://gitimmersion.com/

Makes you use git in a variety of scenarios. Very hands on, so you can see what the git commands you're using actually do.

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Redbaron2005 (the aosp gingerbread dev) also has a very easy tutorial.

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[flapjack.fiasco]

Thanks for the suggestions all. When I'm through with git-immersion, I'll check out what you guys have offered up. I've been making some aliases in the .gitconfig. Like git hist for a nice formatted history. There's some real good stuff in this git-immersion tutorial.

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[thewraith420]

Soo.. I was just thinking... If I wanted to build an updated version of jerryscripts backside rom would I just sync cm then sync Jerry's repo?

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[EarthnFire78]

Soo.. I was just thinking... If I wanted to build an updated version of jerryscripts backside rom would I just sync cm then sync Jerry's repo?

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Just repo sync Jerry's repo, Jerry made changes to the default.xml to point to his repo.

 

[thewraith420]

Just repo sync Jerry's repo, Jerry made changes to the default.xml to point to his repo.

Would that pull in any cm changes though? Or would that have to be done manually?

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[thekraven]

Manually, otherwise you will be building his last build with exception to the CyanogenMod ones listed in his manifest. The Jerryscript repos are usually the major ones that need updating ... frameworks_base , CMParts, Phone, and Settings. So in each of those repos, you manually pull in the updated CyanogenMod repos to keep jerryscript's customizations. Then the rest, you apply Mrg666's patches.

 

[Filip Djordjevic]

hi buddys i started to build cm7 for g300 and i get this error:

Copy: out/target/product/u8815/system/lib/libril.so
target Executable: rild (out/target/product/u8815/obj/EXECUTABLES/rild_intermediates/LINKED/rild)
prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.3/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-eabi/4.4.3/../../../../arm-eabi/bin/ld: out/target/product/u8815/obj/EXECUTABLES/rild_intermediates/rild.o: in function s_rilEnv:rild.c(.data.rel+0x4): error: undefined reference to 'RIL_onUnsolicitedResponse'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [out/target/product/u8815/obj/EXECUTABLES/rild_intermediates/LINKED/rild] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

i hope someone can help me.