2008/7/24 Christ van Willegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Marek Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> since it seems to be extremely difficult to build software for the >>> OpenMoko on my home machine, perhaps it would be usefull if someone >>> (within OpenMoko?) would set up a globally reachable build host with >>> an openembedded and toolchain environment on it. >> >> could you describe what kind of problems you experience ? The only way to >> improve the situation is by naming the issues at hand. :-) > > I tried to tell you a few times, but I'll rephrase. > > I have an iMac G5, rev C (with iSight built-in). That is a PowerPC64 > architecture. > > - There is no native Mokomakefile support for this machine > - I tried running VirtualPC to emulate an i386 processor so that I > could install Ubuntu. This works, but is _terribly_ slow. Also, > getting Ubuntu 8 on it is something I didn't try. But, building > Mokomakefile took days to get to step 1500.
Instead of using the mokomakefile you could try this package I've made for Ubuntu(see http://andreasdalsgaard.blogspot.com/2008/07/openmoko-development-in-5-minutes.html). The package contain the toolchain and some common libs, which makes it quite easy to get started. Furthermore the opkg-sdk is installed, which means it is pretty easy to add missing packages to the toolchain. > - I eventually found out how to install Debian etch on my PC > (natively), but running Mokomakefile's 'make build-devel-image' gave > me an error 'don't know what to do with powerpc64 architecture'. > - The toolchain explicitly states that it needs i386. I could build > from source, but openmokoui-2.0-dev is also only available for i386. > > Well, that's about it :-) A simple Ubuntu- or Debian-machine 'out > there' on the Internet with up-to-date bild env and the poosibility to > scp files over would be ideal now :-) > > I hope this sums up the problems well enough. > > Christ van Willegen > -- > 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community