Re: OpenZaurus 3.5.5 - call for help

On February 2 2007 11:23, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia piątek, 2 lutego 2007 13:19, F. Edward Barrett napisał:
> > On February 2 2007 6:23, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> > > I propose to build 3.5.5-testX images from .dev and when we get
> > >
> > > Need to check:
> > >
> > > - why .dev images are so big
> > > - does opie works with multi threaded qt
> >
> > I'm not a developer, but I've been building opie packages for my collie
> > out of .dev and I have a few things to say:
> >
> > Opie does work with qte-mt, but there are many .bbs  that require
> > adding LDFLAGS += "-lstdc++" when using it. KO/PI and KA/PI do not
> > build against it, and those are my two main apps, so that's a deal
> > breaker for me.  Is there any reason for using it, besides having a
> > more current version of konqueror-embedded?
>
> I was thinking about newer konqueror/embedded. But I think that we can use
> normal qt/e as this is how it was in all previous versions.
>
> > SDL games (I've tried scummvm, abuse, and freedroid) require libsdl-qpe
> > to run in Opie.  When linked against libsdl-x11 they all error out with
> > "no available device" or some such.
>
> libsdl-qpe and libsdl-x11 can both be used on linking phase and second
> gives less problems. Which one use on device is left for user.

That's good to know.  I've been able to work around it, so I haven't posted 
anything about it before.

>
> > Scummvm is unusable on the collie with the .bb currently in OE, due to
> > it trying to use a 640x480 display.  I tracked down the .bb used to
> > produce the Opie package available from scummvm.org and it disables the
> > software scalers, which allows the app to run.
>
> Submit it as scummvm-qvga into bugtracker?

I will do that as soon as I can get it to build again.  I'm currently running 
into the issue that it's configure script can't find sdl-config.  Do you want 
it in this state?

>
> > Personally, I don't see any reason to have another release of OZ.
> > unless the non-collie machines are poorly supported with the current
> > release.
>
> Collie is supported only in 3.5.4 and does not have some stuff from next
> releases available - for example pregenerated locales.
>
> > I would like to see the recent bugfixes in Opie packaged up, though.
>
> Since we moved to linuxtogo with hosting and we can have feed repository
> there I would like to get some more people working on feed contents. But
> as it was in past probably no one will want to help with it :(

I will help as much as I can.  I have a brand new Athlon 64X2 machine at work 
(it's my virtualization box) that builds from OE pretty darn fast, so I can 
use it as a build/test box.

Ed
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