First of all thank you for your reaction, Quoting Lauri Leukkunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > We're working on packaging scratchbox as a debian package. I don't know > when exactly this would be available, we have a "dumb" package which > doesn't really know how to upgrade itself currently. It isn't much > better than using the tar-balls from the website. > I definitely will try it out when I have some more disk-space and an arm-platform capable of running some graphical interface for which I will run into compilation problems > > I would try to make > > as much workarounds as possible in the rules file (makefile for debian > source > > package) as these work-around would remain valid for quite a while, and > makes > > rebuilding by developer easier. > > In my opinion you are a brave soul to attempt going at it that way. :) > The problems are mostly not related to Debian rules files alone. You'll > need to fix the original build systems themselves. > > Luckily for us mere mortals this is just fine from scratchbox project's > perspective since we're really only interested in the result (== > cross-compiling Debian for embedded devices). If more package > maintainers and upstream projects are aware of cross-compiling, then it > will make life easier for all. What I tried to propose actually was: limiting as much as possible the use of scratchbox to the "problematic" packages. But indeed I still will need to be "brave", and hopefully not the only brave one :) > I'm not sure if I'm able to attend Fosdem. I'll try to find out if I > could get it arranged as it would definitely be useful. I hope you can make it. greets, Philippe | Philippe De Swert -GNU/linux - uClinux freak- | | Stag developer http://www.mind.be/stag | | Please do not send me documents in a closed format. (*.doc,*.xls,*.ppt) | Use the open alternatives. (*.pdf,*.ps,*.html,*.txt) | Why? http://pallieter.is-a-geek.org:7832/~johan/word/english/
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