[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] scratchbox2 progress

[From: Lauri Leukkunen]

Hello,

I had a quite pleasant surprise today when I noticed that fakeroot "just
works" with SB2. This means that it is possible that debian packaging tools 
could work. I'm not saying they do, and I can't test them myself, but 
anyone who has experience in working with them, and who is not afraid of 
doing a little experimenting would be most welcome to give it a shot.

SB2 seems to work on both x86 and x86_64 architectures, on both Gentoo
and Debian. I seem to have fixed a large number of problems after wrapping
the openat() & co functions which were missing previously. I'm aiming
at perhaps creating the first release of SB2 at end of February, depending
if I get positive feedback about the debian packaging tools.

You can get the source from:

http://rahina.org/sb2/

It is not entirely out of the question that you could already today use
SB2 to build software for the Maemo platform, but you would need to know
exactly what you're doing.


/lauri

PS. Test reports from people who have a RedHat, Fedora or SuSE box would
be appreciated.