[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Howto: using two scratchbox environments

[From: Aaron Levinson]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Janne Kataja wrote:

> Aaron Levinson wrote:
> > The standard maemo 3.0 SDK installation documentation states that it is 
> > recommended that previous versions of the SDK be uninstalled before 
> > installing the new SDK.  But, it seems reasonable that developers will 
> > want to maintain both the 2.0/2.1 and 3.0 installations due to the need to 
> > build packages for both the 770 and N800.  
> 
> Scratchbox 1.0 can be installed to and run from alternative path, 
> example to /opt/scratchbox , and not just /scratchbox .
> This question has popped up in scratchbox-users mailing list
> 
> [Scratchbox-users] Multiple scratchbox installations on the same machine
> http://lists.scratchbox.org/pipermail/scratchbox-users/2006-October/000716.html
> 
> Quote:
> > Scratchbox versions prior to 1.0 must be installed in /scratchbox, but
> > from version 1.0 on, you can install them anywhere.
> > 
> > Multiple installations of versions prior to 1.0 are (obviously) not
> > supported.
> > 
> > Just make sure that the legacy branch version is installed in
> > /scratchbox and you should be okay.

True, but according to one e-mail to this list (at
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/developers/14191?search_string=pkg-config;#14191
), there is a bug in the maemo 3.0 SDK install script that prevents the
script from working if scratchbox isn't installed to /scratchbox.

Aaron