On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 19:21 +0300, Miko Nieminen wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:44 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 15:28 +0300, Miko Nieminen wrote: > > > Ångström is very interesting as a distribution, but it is build around > > > OpenEmbeded which is build around cross-compilation like Maemo and > > > that's what we want to get rid of. > > > > > > Mojo goes with native builds (currently by using Qemu) like Debian and > > > I'm in favour of that approach. Using native build just works much > > > better, check that Andrew's presentation. With cross-compilation you > > > need to be quite careful about which versions of different tools to > > > select for your toolchain, with native build you don't have that many > > > problems. > > > > Maemo uses QEMU to compile "natively", it doesn't cross-compile. > > > > Actually it does cross-compilation, it just hides it very well. Though I > haven't checked how Scratchbox 2 does it, but most probably it uses also > cross-compilation. Taken from Scratchbox site: > "Welcome to the scratchbox.org website, the home of the > cross-compilation toolkit project." And it's the magic hiding which makes scratchbox so hard to use. :) Ross -- OpenedHand Ltd. Unit R Homesdale Business Centre / 216-218 Homesdale Road / Bromley / BR1 2QZ / UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8819 6559 Expert Open Source For Consumer Devices - http://o-hand.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------
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