i can tell you something, windows is childsplay compared to linux.
when you come from windows you take a lot of your windows knowledge for granted. give linux some time, there is some system to the madness. that said, I think there are some configuration bugs in the nokia supplied scripts.
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Think i've installed scratchbox. figured out how to run the install script but its telling me that it cant continue due to no user has been setup. (more googling needed).
You have to specify the user you are installing for with a flag (I think the wiki is missing this detail). I can't remember the syntax, but check the script help (For Bore SDK, type "./maemo-sdk-install_3.1.sh --help")
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Makes me think, are linux developers paid more than win32 developers?
in your scratchbox home folder, which is /home/username from within scratchbox or /scratchbox/username/home/username outside of scratchbox. Always a good idea to setup some sort of SCM and use it religously even for personal projects.
If you decice to put it out of /scratchbox/.... then you will have to use a mount-bind feature of linux because when you login to scratchbox you will be chrooted to /scratchbox which means that you will not see anything outside /scratchbox. So using mount-bind, you mount "a portion of a partition to another portion of a partition".
Example for me I have modified /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_ctl (start_sbox function) and added before the echo this line:
mount /mnt/hda2/src /scratchbox/users/free/home/free/src -o bind
My source are physically on /mnt/hda2.
My scratchbox is physically on /scratchbox (/ is /mnt/hda1 in fact)
In scratchbox to access my sources:
cd src
In my linux, I have a link like this:
/home/free/src ------> /mnt/hda2/src
So all links are preserved. (/home/free/src is consistent)
I can download out of scratchbox and make it available under scratchbox.
