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Arch linux anyone?

Hi.

Has anyone installed the development tools in Arch Linux?

I did install Debian but it ran soo slowly on my machine, I didn't bother installing the scratchbox and what not.

Cheers.

Re: Arch linux anyone?

If you search Arch Linux's forums, someone has managed to do it, and was going to create a PKGBUILD but they were side tracked doing something else.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83736

slaapliedje

Re: Arch linux anyone?

I'm running the tools on Arch. What exactly are your problems?
I only had difficulties with ESbox.

Re: Arch linux anyone?

I also run the SDK on arch. both the old one and the pr1.2 one run well on two of my arch boxes. The fact that it might run slowly is normal depending on your box.

Re: Arch linux anyone?

slaapliedje: I looked on the forum, but there were no instructions. As for the build, yea, it kinda fizzled out!

jfk: Well, I was just looking for instructions. I mean, I tried to manually install xserver-xephyr with various combos with no luck (pacman -S etc...).

Dont suppose you could just post a quick install notes?

Thanks.

EDIT: Might be an idea to post onto the Arch Wiki?

Re: Arch linux anyone?

I simply followed the normal installation instructions. Xephyr should already be installed because it's part of the package 'xorg-server'.

Re: Arch linux anyone?

But the instructions are for Debian systems?

Sorry, it took me ages to find a Linux system that was quick and I don't really want to start "testing" instructions without knowing that they work and wont break my system!

Re: Arch linux anyone?

Just follow the instructions under "Installing Maemo 5 SDK on x86-32 Debian based distribution" on http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...l_Installation, ignoring the bit about Xephyr (it's installed on arch normally, don't use the AUR package) then use a little script to start and stop it, eg I use this in /usr/local/bin/maemo :

Code:

#!/bin/bash

sudo sysctl abi.vsyscall32=0

sudo ~/maemo/scratchbox/sbin/sbox_ctl start

Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -kb &

~/maemo/scratchbox/login

killall -q Xephyr

sleep 1

sudo ~/maemo/scratchbox/sbin/sbox_ctl stop

sudo sysctl abi.vsyscall32=1

Obviously my SDK is installed in ~/maemo. I don't remember any particular problems, but I installed it ages ago before I got my N900 so I could have a look at the UI so I may have forgotten.

Re: Arch linux anyone?

Ok, I tried to follow it and am getting nowhere!

Basically, I tried to run the first script and tried:

Code:

./maemo-scratchbox-install_5.0.sh -s /opt/scratchbox -u USERNAME

And got some messages but nothing in /opt/scratchbox

Code:

This script will install Scratchbox 1.0.14 'apophis' release to your computer.



Install options

---------------



Install from packages=tgz

Scratchbox install path=/opt/scratchbox

Scratchbox group=sbox

armel compiler=cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm

i386 compiler=cs2007q3-glibc2.5-i386

armel devkits=perl:debian-etch:qemu:doctools:svn:git

i386 devkits=perl:debian-etch:doctools:svn:git

armel CPU transparency=qemu-arm-sb



Checking for prerequisites

--------------------------



Running as user root... yes

Not running as user root inside fakeroot... yes

Running outside of scratchbox... yes

Scratchbox installation existing... no

Running on Linux kernel... yes

Running on i386 architecture... yes

Host kernel binfmt_misc support... yes

Host kernel VDSO support... no

E: Host kernel VDSO support is incompatible with scratchbox.

E: You can disable VDSO support for this session with

E: 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled' as root

E: For a permanent solution you may add 'vm.vdso_enabled = 0'

E: to /etc/sysctl.conf and run 'sysctl -p' as root

I am guessing it didn't download anything????

Thanks.

Re: Arch linux anyone?

Ok solved it...

Should have read!

Basically, I added "vm.vdso_enabled = 0" to /etc/sysctl.conf, then ran sysctl -p. Then to install I ran ./maemo-scratchbox-install_5.0.sh -s /opt/scratchbox -u USERNAME

Thanks guys!