Hi,
ext Juha Kallioinen wrote:
> ext Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Juha Kallioinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> In the maemo SDK, Qemu is only supposed to be used to *build* the ARMEL
>>> .deb
>>> packages which are then runnable/installable on the device. The confusing
>>> thing is that many programs do work in qemu, but still you should not
>>> really
>>> use it to run them because of these known issues :-)
>> Actually, I was essentially running `dpkg-buildpackage' in Scratchbox
>> (ARMEL target), which runs the package's test suite. Running the test
>> suite on the real hardware isn't an option I guess (well, I did it to
>> convince myself that QEMU might be wrong, but you wouldn't do it for
>> every single package that you build ;-)). And running the test suite on
>> x86 or similar isn't as useful.
>
> Ah yes those test suites can sometimes be problematic.. it might be possible
> to set up an environment using sbrsh cputransparency that would run the test
> suite on the device. I tried to do it with gdb's test suite, but gave up
> after seeing how many supporting software packages I'd have to had install
> on the device.
With Sbrsh NFS mounts you don't need to install the packages to
the device, it's enough to install them to Sbox target (as that's
what sbrsh NFS-mounts to the device).
- Eero
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