few questions regarding nard

[Ronny Nilsson]

Hi Wojtek
Most likely you can use any Raspberry kernel you like. I try to keep the Nard 
patches as few as possible solely for ease of upstream updates. It's on my 
TODO-list to add a more recent kernel, but I've been lacking time lately. 
(Any help is appreciated.) Some patches exist though and you can find them in
	nard/apps/linux-kernel/linux-rpi-3.10.y.patches/
You are most welcome to port them, but your system will probably run without 
them as well. They are mostly used for making the the Raspberry more 
appropriate for embedded use.

Are there an installer bundled with your third party library or do you need to 
copy them manually into place? Are your application the only one who will 
ever use them or do multiple application need them? In the single app case 
you could put them in a subdirectory of your custom application and hard 
wire the include path in the sources and Makefile. If you want to go for the 
most elegant method you could look into some of the librarys bundled with 
Nard, such as:
	nard/apps/salsa-lib/
	nard/apps/wiringpi-lib/
The first use a provided script and the second installs manually. Once 
installed the website has as a section for how your application can find the 
library during cross-compilation:
http://www.arbetsmyra.dyndns.org/nard/extending.html#extendapps

/Ronny



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> Hello, thanks for the effort in developing this project. I'm considering
> using nard in my rpi project, and i have a few introductory questions:
>
>  - can i safely replace kernel version present in nard tree with newest rpi
> kernel sources? Are there any nard-specific patches applied to the kernel
> during image build?
>
>  - my application sources link with proprietary, binary only libraries -
> how can i set the build up, so that these libraries will be found during
> cross-compilation of my application, and then, where i should put these
> library files so that nard build script would place them on the image root
> fs in appropriate place (/usr/lib or /usr/local/lib)?
>
> Thanks,
> Wojtek Mitus