hi Randall,

We've had some success using Linaro.  I didn't do the work myself, but
here's a summary of getting everything built up to the point of using
a Kinect:  http://www.ros.org/wiki/gumros/kinect.  There's no
step-by-step of the install process, but there's a link there to a
(big) disk image that you could `dd` to an SD card to try out the
result.  I believe that everything was natively compiled (slow, but
fewer headaches than cross-compiling).

    brian.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:52 PM, SANBORN, RANDALL <rasanbor@umflint.edu> wrote:
> I'm having a heck of a time getting ros built on a gumstix verdex. I can't get a basic image built using Ubuntu 11.04, I installed Ubuntu 10.10 and now I am having a heck of a time with the cross-compile of apache-log4cxx. I get:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: /opt/gumros/lib/libaprutil-1.a(apr_xml.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>
> Does anyone know a fairly trouble free distribution? I'd like to get it built first, so I can focus on the robotics, rather than spend all my time messing with the build!
>
> Regards,
>
> Randall
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