[Scratchbox-users] Debian Etch in scratchbox?

[Jim Heck]

Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:23:13AM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:57 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
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>>> Is there any existing arm debian Etch scratchbox devkit that we can just
>>> download?
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>> Can I be the only person trying to do this?
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You aren't but I gave up in my quest to do so, since I ran into many 
problems trying.  I concluded that as it currently is, Scratchbox 1.x is 
suited only for building a Sarge distribution (without major surgery).  
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.  I was pointed at Scratchbox 2, 
but that effort is not yet far enough along to allow building Etch 
packages either.  Currently I am trying to make headway going the pure 
Emdebian route to build Etch packages.


> What you want is a arm debian etch toolchain, not a devkit. The best
> way would be to use the emdebian i386->arm crosstoolchains from:
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> http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianToolchain
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The toolchain is only one part of it. I can't see how you get around 
needing a whole new Debian devkit that contains all the updated tools 
necessary to build Etch source packages (newer doctools, newer debhelper 
tools, etc. etc. etc.).  Remember the Sarge versions of the these tools 
are several years old, and package maintainers have moved on to newer 
versions for Etch.  I went down this path and hit problems, even trying 
to build some Sarge packages, some of the tools in the Debian devkit are 
not fully working (dh-consoledata, see a post from me last month).

I would think you could use a crosstool toolchain (built for gcc4.1 with 
a recent glibc), and don't strictly need the Emdebian one, though it 
would be interesting to know if the Emdebian one would simply work.  I 
found that crosstool toolchains need to be built from within Scratchbox 
to avoid linker problems with the toolchain itself depending on a newer 
glibc than the scratchbox Devkit provides (note that the toolchain that 
gcc uses to build sources is not the same as the toolchain that it 
itself depends on to run).

> Those toolchains are build out of etch sources, so they will be
> definetly compatible with etch. To imprort the toolchain to scratchbox,
> use the ForeignToolchains instructions:
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> http://scratchbox.org/wiki/ForeignToolchains
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> I don't think anyone has imported a emdebian toolchain to scratchbox
> before, so you are somewhat on your own. But the scripts should be
> relatetively readable if you hit any problems.
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