[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] What kind of tools and utilities you want in ARM

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> We are currently thinking what kind of tools and utilities would be
>> the most useful for ARM based Maemo developers. Idea is that we would
>> host some basic tools and utilities from common repository and
>> hopefully when new platform version comes these tools work ASAP and
>> fun can start immediately. So please tell what kind of tools you are
>> using or wishing and why ? 
> 
> strace
> ltrace
> gdb
> strings
> vmstat

IMHO "top" and /proc/vmstat file are bearable replacements for vmstat
utility.


> lsof
> valgrind

I checked Maemo bugzilla and following were requested there:
- More network tools to Busybox:
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=989
- IPv6 support for Busybox network tools:
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=406
- Working LXR index:
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=406
- Syslog:
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=809
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=460
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=673
- Gstreamer with debugging support:
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=778
- Screenshot utility:
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=850
- pkg-confing for manually installed rootstraps:
   https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=947


	- Eero