[Scratchbox-users] to Debian or not to Debian....

[Ray Kiddy]

One thing about trying to understand some of this cross-compilation  
technology is that I always suspect there are words I am hearing and  
I think I know their meaning, but in this context, I do not.

I am looking at: http://www.scratchbox.org/documentation/user/ 
scratchbox-1.0/html/installdoc.html#AEN451

The title says "Setting up Debian Environment". In my limited  
understanding, I do not think I want to do this. My host is an Ubuntu  
6.10 system and I am trying to compile for an arm-based embedded device.

But am I misunderstanding this? Perhaps I want to setup a Debian  
environment because it is "virtually speaking" a Debian system inside  
the scratchbox but one does not have to be on an actual Debian host  
to do this. Or does one need to be on an actual Debian host? I can  
make a case for the logic in either direction.

thanx - ray