Re: compiling/packaging tinymail on maemo 3.0 (bora)

["Øystein Gisnås" <oystein gisnas net>]

This is actually a bit tricky. Let me consult the community before I
give any other answer.

Øystein

2007/1/23, Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>:
> Hey Oystein,
>
>
> Is there a way to have a maemo-specific directory or control file? I can
> imagine this would break the original debian package support.
>
>
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 19:59 +0200, Dirk-Jan Binnema nokia com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just to share some findings; I am a bit of a debian packaging n00b,
> > but the following seems to work.
> >
> > 1) apply the patch
> >       - this removes dependencies that are not necessary/available
> >         on the maemo 3.0 / bora platform
> >       - also it fixes the ICONV_10646 undefined issue
> >       - and it places the packages in Section: user/extra
> >           (otherwise the app manager on your 770/n800 will
> >           not accept it)
> > 2) build the package with:
> >       $ DEB_CONFIGURE_USER_FLAGS="--with-platform=maemo"
> > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
> >
> > BTW, there might be a problem running autogen.sh, as some of the m4
> > macros seem not
> > be correctly installed in bora; this seems like a bug; but can be worked
> > around
> > by manually copying the missing m4 files to /usr/share/aclocal. Ugly,
> > but it works.
> >
> > The patch is not really suitable for non-bora tinymail, but hopefully I
> > (or someone
> > else) can come up with something better.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Dirk.
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