Hi,

Thank you for your answers!

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Lauri Leukkunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SB2 by default (using the "simple" mapping mode) doesn't give you a "chroot",
> it's that way by design. Idea is to be as unintrusive as possible, while
> still functioning for cross compilation.

I'm a little puzzled now. I thought that sb2 enforce cross
compilations to use only stuff from the rootfs using chroot
environment. Isn't that what needed for cross compilation ?

>  It is possible to "chroot" by
> running sb2 in the emulation mode (sb2 -e). Maemo uses the "maemo" mode,
> which you can enable by running sb2 -m maemo. What works best depends what
> you plan to do. I'd say that for constructing a new distro, simple mode
> should be enough as you can and should clean up the most attrocious build
> system failures instead of relying on sb2 to paper over them. For supporting
> debian style building a mode similar to maemo is useful, as the idea
> obviously is to deviate as little as possible from the upstream.
>
> Overall it's not terribly obvious (even after many years...) what is *the*
> right way to deal with this. This is one of the reasons why I like to
> position SB2 as a tool for creating an SDK instead of being the SDK.

How do you recommend me to work if I only want to cross compile source
packages using configure,make, make install ? no new distro, no apt
stuff...

Thank you
Sfora
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