Re: [Zaurus-general] Re: Open Zaurus

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 23:24, The Doctor What wrote:
> * Brian Beattie ([email protected]) [021025 21:24]:
> > I've noticed that in general, the openzaurus CVS tree, either does not
> > build, or what builds does not run.  Now I fully understand that is is a
> > development tree and is expected to break upon occasion but this seems
> > worse than that.  I'd like to offer my services to work on such build
> > issues.  Does anybody have a suggestion as to who I might contact?
> 
> No kidding.  Some of the problems might be due to which libc you

Actually the first glitch in the oz sources that I pulled from CVS
yesterday is the kernel won't build, many (most?) of the patches seem to
be out of date.  The problems seem much more basic than lib version
skew.

> have.  For example, I discovered that the .debs from Embbedian have
> a version of libc-dev-arm which doesn't work right with the wireless
> stuff in OZ. I had to use the include/linux/wireless.h from the
> actual Debian ARM project, which works (though who knows what else
> is messed up).
> 
> I have to say that even getting as far as I have (some stuff
> complies fine, other stuff pukes and warns like crazy) has taken
> *way* too much effort. :-P
> 
> Someone should put together a simple way for developers to get
> coding on OZ and Opie.  Without this, it'll entry "price" for new
> developers will be too high, plus, when something changes and
> requires a re-setup of the development environment, you'll lose
> time, effort and probably developers.
> 
> BTW: a better place to discuss development is zaurus-devel. :-)

point taken and discussion moved.

I'd really like to talk to the developers, becuase I can probably work
out most of the glitches, but the problems probably change on a daily
basis and it would be a waste of time if the efforts were not
coordinated.  I tried to send mail to one email address I found but that
bounced, so if any of the developers read this and are interested in
some help with keeping the cvs tree in a somewhat buildable state please
drop me a line.

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