Re: Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 testing

"Robert E. Anderson" <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:46:42 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.opie
Organization Univ of NH RCC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Last month I attempted to build Opie in both Familiar and Angstrom 
distribution environments.  Both failed for me.  I ran both distros on my 
hx4700, but found the X11 distro way to much of a step back from Opie to 
continue using it.  I then went back to Familiar and got my other support 
apps working.  Yesterday I switched back to Angstrom to test it, and I would 
really like to stay.

I really need to get the development environment up and running because there 
are some packages that I've grown very accustomed to, and I expect to have to 
port them over and contribute them back to Angstrom.  There are some others 
that I have always wanted ported but, just haven't had the time or 
environment setup to get it done.

I've been doing my own apps in PyQt for awhile now and can hardly wait for a 
Qt4 based distro.  That was why I was almost willing to go with X11.  I've 
been doing Qt3 development then commenting out the few lines of problem UIC 
code from my PyQt programs.  It works well enough for now.

I've also been doing database work against sqlite3 for awhile.  I started 
using SQLAlchemy to see how it worked and rewrote some of my apps that way.  
That is one of the packages that I would really like to port over to the iPAQ 
so that I could use my newer code base.  

Do you have any tips on setting up the build environment from scratch?  I've 
done this a few years back before it was named bitbake.  I realize that it 
always seems like there is a problem package.  I just don't have time for a 
half dozen of them.  Each "problem" build seems to take an evening or two to 
figured out what has changed from the working bitbake and/or CVS tree.  On 
the plus side, once you have everything built it works great.

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 Robert E. Anderson  		 	email: [email protected]
 Systems Programmer			phone: (603) 862-3489
 UNH Research Computing Center		  fax: (603) 862-1761
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