Maemo compatible toolchain

Maemo compatible toolchain

[Patrick Ohly]

Hi,

in July 2005 Florian Boor announced the maemo-1.0 distro for the Nokia
770. If I read the posting and the .txt file right, this replaced the
official Nokia image for the device. Is this effort still pursued by
someone?

While a worthwhile goal, I am more interested in building packages with
OE that work on the official image because I want my software to be
usable by "normal" users without having to reflash their devices.
There's Scratchbox of course, but it currently does not work for me
(known incompatibility with 2.6.18 kernel). Is compiling for Maemo with
OE something that has been tried before?

The problem would be to keep a list of the preferred versions of all
libraries and (as far as necessary) the toolchain and ensure that the
corresponding .bb files remain around and buildable.
org.openembedded.dev is probably changing too quickly for that - is
there a stable branch which is still in use by some other distro and
might have more of the older revisions? org.openembedded.oz354x perhaps?

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Re: Maemo compatible toolchain

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 19:54 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> ork on the official image because I want my software to be
> usable by "normal" users without having to reflash their devices.
> There's Scratchbox of course, but it currently does not work for me
> (known incompatibility with 2.6.18 kernel). Is compiling for Maemo
> with
> OE something that has been tried before?

As far as toolchains go, poky has a POKYMODE (eabi5) which roughly
corresponds to maemo's csl 'EABI' toolchain. I think those versions of
the csl packages were added into OE by me.

Cheers,

Richard

Re: Maemo compatible toolchain

[Patrick Ohly]

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 22:42 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 19:54 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > ork on the official image because I want my software to be
> > usable by "normal" users without having to reflash their devices.
> > There's Scratchbox of course, but it currently does not work for me
> > (known incompatibility with 2.6.18 kernel). Is compiling for Maemo
> > with
> > OE something that has been tried before?
> 
> As far as toolchains go, poky has a POKYMODE (eabi5) which roughly
> corresponds to maemo's csl 'EABI' toolchain. I think those versions of
> the csl packages were added into OE by me.

Thanks for the pointer, I might try that next. My previous attempts were
not successful enough to get more than the simplest executables running
on the Nokia 770 (generic distro + nokia770 device + a few preferred
versions => glibc-intermediate fails to compile; angstrom-2007.1 +
nokia770 => almost works, but too recent glibc to run a full
SyncEvolution binary on the 770).

As interesting as playing around with OE is, time is up now and I guess
I will just install a suitable kernel and resurrect my Scratchbox
installation to make some progress with my real issue (DBus (?) timeouts
in certain eds-dbus API calls that SyncEvolution depends on).

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