[Scratchbox-users] sb-menu usage and config information

[Ray Kiddy]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 2:44 PM, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:59:57PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
>>
>> As
>>   http://scratchbox.org/documentation/user/scratchbox-1.0/html/ 
>> installdoc.html#cctarget
>>
>> mentions briefly, there's a CLI version of the configuration tool
>> called sb-conf. It can do everything that sb-menu does.
>
> When I run it, it complains I haven't run sb-menu yet.  And I just  
> don't
> know enough about scratchbox to understand what sb-menu is taling  
> about.
> And I don't know where to look for enlightenment.
>
> -- hendrik
> _______________________________________________
>

I am still feeling my way through some of this, so I feel your pain.

The sb-menu app seems awkward to use. But it is what is there. You  
need to download enough of the bits for it to use.

I downloaded things (from http://scratchbox.org/download/files/sbox- 
releases/apophis/tarball/) and then un-tarred them into the / 
scratchbox directory on my system, and then ran sb-menu and found a  
whole bunch of the menus to be populated.

You will see where you have to pick from different versions of the  
various things. I have no idea why some versions are better than  
others, but I just picked the latest one that made sense.

Being new to cross-compiling, I did not know what cpu-transparency  
was referring to, but a chat with a co-worker and a careful reading  
of the tutorial made it clearer. The CPU-transparency lets you  
emulate your target processor on your host. It seems to work well.

The doc can probably be made more ... accessible for new people.  
We'll see.

cheers - ray