[maemo-developers] Using a library package in Maemo sysroot

[From: Tomi Ollila]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:27:26 -0400, David Talmage <talmage at acm.org> wrote:

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> I discovered two more things.
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> 1. the version of dpkg at meego.gitorious.org *does* look in 
> $SYSROOT/madde_xpkgs.
> 2. So does the version of dpkg in QtSDK-1.1/Madde/madbin.
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> This is very interesting.  I reverted libqcontactchooserdialog.shlibs to its 
> original form and replaced /home/talmage/QtSDK-1.1/Maemo/4.6.2/bin/madbin/dpkg 
> with the one from QtSDK-1.1/Madde/madbin.  I can build the application package 
> now!
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> Thanks to Tomi and Christian for their advice.  It made me look in the right 
> places.  I am very happy to be able to resume development!

Thanks for digging a bit deeper. I missed that 'dpkg' had related
changes and therefore an updated version of dpkg was needed as well.
Your approach to "fix" this problem was the right one!

> 
> Dave

Tomi