2010/1/26 Jeremiah Foster <jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com>: > > 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. > Funny. Rebuilding with crosscompilation toolchain is better approach or course, but I doubt that it's easy doable for Maemo packages. It would require changes in big amount of packages. If you're brave enough you can try it. Just let me know and I will stop supporting current solution.
Even not considering above you might notice, that Maemo SDK is based on scratchbox. So, second answer is 'Because Maemo SDK and all developers use it'. -- BR, Ed _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
