On Sat, 5 May 2007 23:17:42 +0800 "Kun Niu" <haoniukun@gmail.com> wrote: > I found that most tools on emdebian are suitable for nokia 770. Now that is interesting - and encouraging. > I want to cross-compile qtopia-4.2.2 on my Debian system. That will be a challenge - I want to prepare GPE for Emdebian but there is a lot to do before that is possible. We both need the same rootfs, we both need certain fundamental libraries and packages cross-built and right now, almost none of that work has been done. It is certainly not just a case of getting the source and rebuilding. > Do you know any other tool which I can use to compile the source on debian > package list? You'll always need a cross-compiler but you don't have to use emdebian-tools, dpkg-buildpackage -a ARCH is what you need to cross-build directly. The problem then is dependencies. It's not a simple case of rebuilding qtopia - you will need to rebuild all the qtopia dependencies and you will probably want to change some of those dependencies to make them more sane for an embedded device compared to the Debian default. Outside Debian, openembedded use a different cross-build that may or may not be workable for you - I have tried to build GPE under OE many times and have had failures at different points each time, no success so far. OE uses 'bitbake' and builds the upstream source, not the Debian source so what you may learn in OE is not directly relevant to Debian or Emdebian - except that some OE patches against upstream may be useful in the Debian package later but may well need to be tweaked. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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