[maemo-developers] Getting a core dump from QEMU

[From: Juha Kallioinen]

ext Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Juha Kallioinen <juha.kallioinen at nokia.com> writes:
>> In the maemo SDK, Qemu is only supposed to be used to *build* the ARMEL .deb 
>> packages which are then runnable/installable on the device. The confusing 
>> thing is that many programs do work in qemu, but still you should not really 
>> use it to run them because of these known issues :-)
> 
> Actually, I was essentially running `dpkg-buildpackage' in Scratchbox
> (ARMEL target), which runs the package's test suite.  Running the test
> suite on the real hardware isn't an option I guess (well, I did it to
> convince myself that QEMU might be wrong, but you wouldn't do it for
> every single package that you build ;-)).  And running the test suite on
> x86 or similar isn't as useful.

Ah yes those test suites can sometimes be problematic.. it might be possible 
to set up an environment using sbrsh cputransparency that would run the test 
suite on the device. I tried to do it with gdb's test suite, but gave up 
after seeing how many supporting software packages I'd have to had install 
on the device.

Cheers,
  Juha

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Juha Kallioinen                                               JID: kaltsi at ok