Hi Jonas, > Am 25.10.2017 um 19:32 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk>: > > Quoting H. Nikolaus Schaller (2017-10-25 17:44:50) >> Back to the original problem: I had not expected that there is a need >> for a configure-make-install. Since we are fully Debian. > > How do you mean configure-build-install isn't needed? QtMoko is compiled > code, so will need to be compiled.
Indeed. But you shouldn't have to to type configure & make to start the dpkg-buildpackage wrapped by a makefile. The dpkg-buildpackage of course must do a configure & make for the source tree, but hide that from the user. IMHO, something is done here upside down. My initial mistake was to assume that I can directly call dpkg-buildpackage after unpacking the source tree. It turned out that this does not work. At least not without modifications. > > >> It should even be possible to use apt-source -b - if we have proper >> source packages. So it looks as if the build architecture of QtMoko is >> upside down... >> >> Maybe it is historical since this is still Squeeze and Wheezy code and >> multiarch wasn't complete back then. On Jessie or Stretch I think it >> could be much simpler if the debian/rules are updated. > > I believe the reason QtMoko build routines fit badly with Debian style > of packaging is that it does not use existing shared Qt libraries but > instead embeds its own fork of Qt optimized for embedded devices: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_Extended It could be a renowned Debian citizen if it would not embed it but just package and provide the special QtE libraries and then just use the -dev version for dpkg-building the launcher, dialer, etc. This is what Josua is working on: http://git.goldelico.com/?p=qtmoko2-qte.git;a=summary > > ...but I am a bit puzzled here: I seem to recall you reminding me of > that (after Debian developer Paul Wise initially explained it to me, and > helped me install QtMoko on one of my GTA02 devices - which I didn't use > much because I wanted a *Debian* environment not a "bastard" like that). Me too :) BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@tinkerphones.org http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
