Jeremiah Foster skrev: > On Jan 25, 2010, at 22:27, Ed Bartosh wrote: > >> 2010/1/25 Jeremiah Foster <jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com>: >>> There are other build tools which are better documented and more flexible >>> than sdbmock. Debian has a complete toolchain which is obviously good at >>> building debs and is completely open and well supported. >> Interesting. Can you point me out to the one, which supports scratchbox? > > Why do you need scratchbox to build debs? Why not just use the debian > toolchain? I know you don't want to learn perl, but hey, it works for debian.
The Debian tools are not really designed for cross-compilation, they're meant to run inside the target environment. That target environment also needs a full complement of Debian tools, including compilers. The reason it works for Debian is because they have a LARGE farm of dedicated, donated machines of various architectures: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi If someone builds a farm of Maemo devices (running on ARM, of course) that they want to dedicate to running buildds, then that might work. Otherwise, the Debian tools need to be run inside a simulated target environment, and the only simulated environment known to run Maemo (and that runs reasonably fast) is probably scratchbox... (I've been a Debian Developer for years, by the way.) Ove _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
