[maemo-developers] Getting a core dump from QEMU

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Juha Kallioinen wrote:
> 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.

With Sbrsh NFS mounts you don't need to install the packages to
the device, it's enough to install them to Sbox target (as that's
what sbrsh NFS-mounts to the device).


	- Eero