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

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:45:05PM +0200, 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.

There's always fakeroot.

Avahi has been compiled for Maemo, and AFAIK it has a mDNSResponder
compatibility layer.  IIRC Avahi may be included in the next Maemo
version (Freemantle), so I'd recommend looking into it.

Marius Gedminas
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   TCP_SeqNum - The 32-bit Sequence Number, encoded as an ASCII string
      representing the hex value of the Sequence number.  This field
      MUST be sent as lower case because it is not urgent.
                -- RFC 3093
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