[maemo-developers] Does Apple's Bonjour work on Maemo?

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Shengye Lu wrote:
> I tried to cross-compile a service-discovery enabled application,
> which depends on Apple's mDNSResponder library. My question is: is it
> possible to cross-compile mDNSResponder library in scratchbox, and
> make
> Apple's service-discovery mechanism work on Maemo?
> 
> My own experience is: compiling mDNSResponder library need root
> permission, but in scratchbox, we have no real root permission. So my
> cross-compiling mDNSResponder library in scratchbox failed.

Why compiling would need root rights (and especially something
that fakeroot cannot fake)?


	- Eero