Problems with the N800 configuration

[Lorn Potter]

Tobias Rundström wrote:
> Hello Trolltech,
> 
> I have downloaded the Qtopia 4.3 tech preview with the intention of
> building it for the Nokia N800. First I would like to thank you for
> doing a device configuration for the lovely internet tablet. I think
> with your software it will be even better!
> 
> I had the following problems with the build:
> * There was no real clear documentation on how to build. The
> index.html points to build-from-source.html that doesn't exists.
> * I "guessed" that I should build it within scratchbox, so I set
> everything up on my PC running debian. then I did: mkdir build; cd
> build; ../configure -device n800, the following happened:
> * ALSA failed to detected. I made sure that libasound2-dev was
> installed within scratchbox and it was. I tried to run the test
> manually (cd config.tests/alsa/; make ; ./alsa) and it seemed to work
> fine, but the configure script still didn't catch it.
> * I bypassed alsa by editing the devices/n800/configure file to search
> for oss instead, the also failed and configure disabled the media
> subsystem.
> * dbus was not found it searched for dbus in /lib/dbus-1.0 and
> somewhere else, but in scratchbox the default is /usr/lib/dbus-1.0,
> maybe it could be wise to add this by default.
> 
> Any clues on how to fix these problems?

The n800 build one has to mess around with the scratchbox toolchain a
bit. The n800 device configuration is missing a readme. I will write one 
up in the next day or so.


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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech