Maybe it is just me, but some of these things are still confusing. I
can look at all the documentation I can find and I am still not
seeing answers to some of the questions I have. If nobody else has
these questions, I apologize. I'll just answer these for myself in
the fullness of time. However, I doubt that I am the only one who
finds some of this to be not obvious.
I started with the present http://www.scratchbox.org/documentation/
user/scratchbox-1.0/html/installdoc.html and added info to the wiki
pages at http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/ScratchboxInstallation and
http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/ScratchboxTargetConfiguration. A lot
of that is just going through the motions, though. These steps seem
to work, but I have not seen any information as to why.
Looking at files in the directory: http://scratchbox.org/download/
files/sbox-releases/apophis/tarball/
scratchbox-core-1.0.6-i386.tar.gz
scratchbox-core-1.0.7-i386.tar.gz
scratchbox-core-1.0.8-i386.tar.gz
scratchbox-core-1.0.9-i386.tar.gz
scratchbox-core-1.0.10-i386.tar.gz
A lot of things have these versions. What do they correspond to?
Looking at pages such as http://www.scratchbox.org/download/
scratchbox-0.9.5.html, I see no correspondence between how versions
on that list and the available files. On the "Scratchbox 0.9.5" page,
one sees:
# gcc-2.95.3 + 40 patches, glibc-2.2.4, binutils-2.12.1 to be used
for compiling kernels
# gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2, binutils-2.13.2.1 for non-kernel compilations
So, would these correspond to scratchbox-toolchain-cs2005q3.2-glibc-
i386-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz or to scratchbox-toolchain-cs2005q3.2-glibc-
i386-1.0.5-i386.tar.gz? Is there any connection at all between the
versions numbers described in the documentation on scratchbox.org and
the file sets that are made available? How does one find such a
connection?
Ok, so assuming "later" means "better", one can just pick the latest
versions. Is that the best thing to do?
What about these?
scratchbox-toolchain-arm-linux-2007q1-21-1.0.7-i386.tar.gz
scratchbox-toolchain-arm-linux-cs344-2.3-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz
scratchbox-toolchain-arm-linux-ct401-2.3-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz
and
scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc3.4-uclibc0.9.28-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz
scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc4.1-uclibc20061004-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz
One has "uclibc" and "0.9.28" and "uclibc" and a date, "0061004". So
does "0.9.28" mean September 28, 2000? Presumably this version of the
compiler does not date from the Roman empire. And what are "ct" and
"cs" and 2007Q1 is when a company would have reported their income to
the SEC. Is it also a compiler version?
And we have scratchbox-devkit-apt-https-1.0.3-i386.tar.gz.
Why would apt and https go together? Why not git and https? Why not
perl and https? Is any of this documented, or is the way to find out
to look at all the source code?
The installdoc.html says things like:
Base (required):
scratchbox-core - environment, common tools and host compiler
scratchbox-libs - libraries required by core, devkits and
toolchains
Development kits (optional):
scratchbox-devkit-debian - environment and tools for Debian
development
scratchbox-devkit-doctools - document generation tools
scratchbox-devkit-perl - additional Perl modules
Toolchains (optional):
scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc3.3-glibc2.3
scratchbox-toolchain-i686-gcc3.3-glibc2.3
scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc3.2-uclibc20040229
scratchbox-toolchain-i386-gcc3.2-uclibc20040229
So helpful. Yes, the toolchains are optional, but is there really no
documentation on why one would choose one and not the other.
Are these things just obvious to everyone else using the tools? Where
can one find these things out?
Any suggestions are welcome. Or, there is a wiki. One that anyone can
add information to, anytime they want.
cheers - ray
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