[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Compiling an ARMEL package from ARM package

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:39:03PM -0500, Michael Matalon wrote:
> Could someone explain to me how to compile an ARM package to a ARMEL package
> so that I can install it on a n800? I have downloaded wmwave (0.4-6)
> from http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/wmwave.html
> but they only have an ARM vesion available.

You take the source package and build it in scratchbox.  Once you've got
scratchbox installed, you can add a deb-src line pointing to Debian to
your /etc/apt/sources.list (inside scratchbox), and then do

  /scratchbox/login
    fakeroot apt-get source -b packagename

to download, unpack and build it.

Often this doesn't work because of missing dependencies, and then you
have to download, build and install them yourself.

Check out the tutorial at http://maemo.org/platform/docs/how-to.html
for instructions about installing and using Scratchbox.

Cheers,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
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subtlety if it hit them on the head.
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