Here is a question for the really hard core developers here.

On the 770 I had copied the Maemo2.2 armel rootstrap to an ext2 partition and I could do any building that I needed.

However, on the N800 (with Maemo 3.x) the armel rootstrap is missing many of the files needed to build on the device; presumably they have been factored into the Scratchbox. For example, the 3.x rootstrap doesn't even have ls or many linux commands.

I really want to be able to build hildon apps on the N800. There are a number of apps I wish to work on. I've tinkered around for several days now. Can someone who knows more than I do tell me what I need to do to make the 3.1 rootstrap fully functional for building hildon apps?

I know of the many tars/debs used to make scratchbox, but I cannot tell which ones I need or even if they would work given that some are arm-for-i386 files.

Any advice is appreciated; though if you have done this and can get your rootstrap to me somehow it would make my day.

If I get this done I'll add a HOW TO somewhere.

Bruce