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

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Sounds good to me

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 20:57 +0100, �stein Gisn�wrote:
> I've chosen a simple solution where FILE is copied to FILE.DISTRO when
> it has a variation on distribution DISTRO. So far it was only
> necessary for debian/control and debian/rules. It's not necessary for
> debian/rules if Dirk-Jan's solution with a variable is used instead,
> or the platform is detected some other way, for example via
> lsb_release. Dirk-Jan: will tinymail for maemo always be compiled on
> the Nokia Nxxx device? If so, how can it be detected in a script?
> 
> The next thing to do with the scripts now is to split libtinymail into
> packages with one library in each.
> 
> �stein
> 
> 2007/1/25, �stein Gisn�<oystein gisnas net>:
> > This is actually a bit tricky. Let me consult the community before I
> > give any other answer.
> >
> > �stein
> >
> > 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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