Re: Bluez + dbus for ARM solutions?

Aras Vaichas wrote:
> Jelle de Jong wrote:
>> Aras Vaichas wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> can someone point me to where I can find scripts/patches that will help
>>> me build ARM cross-compiled versions of Bluez + dbus for ARM?
>>>
>>> Is there a well know set of dbus+bluez versions that are known to work
>>> for cross-compiling, or does everyone just hack the configure files
>>> until it works?
>>>
>>> I'm currently stuck in dependency hell trying to get dbus to
>>> cross-compile. So far I've got expat, bluez-libs,  and libusb compiled.
>>>
>>> I saw that someone recommended Scratchbox (for dbus) but I'd rather not
>>> do that because I am able to cross-compile every single other library
>>> and application for my distribution (including Python) without requiring
>>> a method like Scratchbox.
>>>
>>> Aras Vaichas
>>>     
>> Have you looked at the Debian arm packages? I believe Debian has almost 
>> all packages compiled for arm. But I may be missing something...
>>   
> Yes I did start by going through the Debian website and downloading all
> the packages that looked they were required for Bluetooth networking.
> 
> e.g. bluez-utils_3.7-1_arm.deb, dbus_1.0.2-1_arm.deb,
> hal_0.5.8.1-9_arm.deb, libbluetooth2_3.7-1_arm.deb,
> libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch5_arm.deb, ppp_2.4.4rel-8_arm.deb,
> libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1_arm.deb, libexpat1_1.95.8-3.4_arm.deb,
> libusb-0.1-4_0.1.12-5_arm.deb, lsb-base_3.1-23.2etch1_all.deb
> 
> We run a minimal, fully customised embedded Linux system with limited
> space. The problem is that the Debian ARM packages are  compiled with
> many options that we don't need. We currently don't run dbus or hal
> because we just haven't needed them.
> 
> The dependency list isn't too bad for all those packages:
> 
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>         libX11.so.6 => not found
>         libbluetooth.so.2 => not found
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001e000)
>         libdbus-1.so.3 => not found
>         libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => not found
>         libexpat.so.1 => not found
>         libglib-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libgobject-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libhal-storage.so.1 => not found
>         libhal.so.1 => not found
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001e000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4014e000)
>         librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x4001e000)
>         libusb-0.1.so.4 => not found
>         libvolume_id.so.0 => not found
> 
> Then I saw that dbus required X11 ... so I started cross-compiling
> everything from source and that's about the time that the pain began.
> 
> I can probably use the Debian package method for development purposes,
> but ideally I'd require custom configured versions of these applications.
> 
> Aras

I know the pain you are feeling, however the only solution is to change 
the way developers create there software and how they recommend the 
build process to the distribution package maintainers.

Please read the below documents, improve them and help us spread create 
a basis for a good sustainable solution:

http://www.powercraft.nl/temp/emdebian-innovating-apt-get-to-become-future-ready-r2.zip
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianImprovedApt

Kind regards,

Jelle de Jong

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