[maemo-developers] Nokia N800 dev under Fedora 9??????

[From: josh.soref at nokia.com]

On Sat, 24 May 2008, Ron wrote:
> I have acquired a couple of Nokia N800's and would
> like to dev some amateur radio apps. Problem is I am
> running Fedora 9 system.  All I read is about
> installing
> CHINOOK on Debian systems.
> 
> Anybody can point me to a good source?

Andrew Daviel wrote:
> http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/4.0/INSTALL.txt
> http://andrew.daviel.org/n810-blog.html "writing applications"
> 
> I was able to install the scratchbox environment without any trouble
> on Fedora Core 4. FC4 is too old to have Xephyr so I was not able to
> actually run graphical programs in scratchbox.

You could use xnest or xvnc instead.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/developers/35127

Indicates that xephyr is available as of fc6.
(Andrew knew this of course because he asked last time)

> Scratchbox includes the Debian tools dpkg, apt-get etc. and
> man pages for same; I could include them in my MANPATH on
> Fedora even if "man" itself was missing. I just needed to
> get my head around making packages instead of RPMs.

> You need the cross-compile environment anyway, since the N800
> is ARM and most desktops are x86, and you build packages inside
> that then copy them to the tablet. BTW, the gdb debugger is
> available and works fairly well over SSH.

Specifically gdb-server, but do yourself a favor and build the latest
version of gdb (cross target) and install that gdb-server onto the
device.