[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RE: Nokia 770 sources...

[From: Hugh Warrington]

Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Devesh Kothari <devesh.kothari at nokia.com> wrote:
>> ext Christian Pernegger wrote:
>>> - setting up the developent environment was a bitch
 >>
>> Could you please send me why ?
>> - Setting up ScratchBox ???
>> - Downloading, extracting maemo x.x rootstrap ?
>> - Setting up UI environment like Xnest/Xephyr?
>> - Setting up CPU_Transparency stuff ??? (need for advanced stuff) ???
>>
>> I am asking you, so we improve it.
> 
> It was just a long and labourious process. The `installer' script made
> it trivial the second time I did it, so much so I wonder why this
> isn't advertised more as a recommended and supported way of
> installing?
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Andrew

I didn't find copy-pasting ten or twenty lines of clear instructions 
into a terminal window very taxing. In fact, as cross-compilation goes, 
setting up and working within the recommended maemo environment is a breeze.

Hugh