building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread Rieker Flaik
Hi all I'm running debian arm and need to rebuild libqt4 with an additional patch. What is the best and fastest way to rebuild that package? I also want to mention that I already tried several ways (cross-compile and qemu): 1. cross-compile: I have installed the emdebian toolchain by doing:

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread martinwguy
On 12 February 2013 16:28, Rieker Flaik rieker_fl...@arcor.de wrote: I'm running debian arm and need to rebuild libqt4 with an additional patch. What is the best and fastest way to rebuild that package? Build it on an ARM box, as Debian packages (in general) need to build on native hardware.

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread Ermis Papastefanakis
Hello, I agree with Martin, it's better to compile Debian packages natively. I would suggest to get something more powerful though. A dual core board like a Pandaboard ES (1.2GHz) or a Snowball (1GHz) can come rather cheap (150-200euros) and are pretty decent for such a task. Ermis On Tue, Feb

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread martinwguy
On 12 February 2013 17:36, Sander san...@humilis.net wrote: Ermis Papastefanakis wrote (ao): I agree with Martin, it's better to compile Debian packages natively. I would suggest to get something more powerful though. A dual core board like a Pandaboard ES (1.2GHz) or a Snowball (1GHz) can

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread Sander
Ermis Papastefanakis wrote (ao): I agree with Martin, it's better to compile Debian packages natively. I would suggest to get something more powerful though. A dual core board like a Pandaboard ES (1.2GHz) or a Snowball (1GHz) can come rather cheap (150-200euros) and are pretty decent for such

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:51:53 +0100 martinwguy martinw...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2013 17:36, Sander san...@humilis.net wrote: Ermis Papastefanakis wrote (ao): I agree with Martin, it's better to compile Debian packages natively. I would suggest to get something more powerful

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread peter green
Rieker Flaik wrote: How do you do that? Any hints? One option worth considering is running qemu in user mode though binfmt_support. This has lower overheads than full hardware emulation and will be able to use multiple host CPUs for paralell builds (since each process runs in a seperate

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread peter green
Sander wrote: I believe the Armbrix Zero sells for $145 It has the same cpu and memory as the Arndale (Cortex-A15 1.7GHz dual core, 2GB 800MHz DDR3, and sata3), just a little less connectors: http://howchip.com/shop/item.php?it_id=BRIX5250 It's also on a three month lead time and has had