[maemo-developers] point ou9t, [please, the way to go ...

[From: Chuck Robey]

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I better begin this with the fact that I've done cross-development before,
on several different platform, both embaedded and non-embedded, so please
don't run me thru the beginners stuff, I don't really need it.

This is actually the sort of request that, for most of the development
things I do, I would normally be embarrassed to have to ask.  BUT, I tried
(the first time, that is) to assemble the tools it takes to produce
binaries for the N800 platform, and after following link-after-link-after
link, and entering what seemed to be an endless series of web pages, all
pointing me towards more of them, I got discouraged to the point of putting
it off.  This time, I will not try that.  I'll see if maybe some questions
could maybe be answered here first.

To begin with, one thing that I did wrong (at least, it seemed wrong) was,
after trying twice to download gigantic amounts of stuff, I kept on finding
out that version whatever required version whatever-minus-1, and that
version seemed to need version minus 2, but I couldn't determine a real
good, truly valid starting point.  I know you folks have done this, and
it's probably all because I had too low a frustration threshold, but if you
would tell me  what it is that I REALLY need, to begin with, well, even if
you don't supply a URL, it will still leave me way ahead.

Thanks VERY much.  I hope I didn't sound too negative, because even though
my experience trying to use the web pages wasn't the best, my opinion of
the platform is,  well, it's great.  I need a bunch of different tools, but
I wanted very much to build them myself.

Thanks

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