Re: Mojo



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
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