too many questions. why don't you download and play a day or two with http://mirror.opf.slu.cz/scratchbox/iso/ScratchboxMultiCpu-2.3.iso
if one thing is really good then all other equivalent disappears ( nature's law ). On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:54 -0700, Ray Kiddy wrote: > > > Maybe it is just me, but some of these things are still confusing. I > can look at all the documentation I can find and I am still not seeing > answers to some of the questions I have. If nobody else has these > questions, I apologize. I'll just answer these for myself in the > fullness of time. However, I doubt that I am the only one who finds > some of this to be not obvious. > > > I started with the > present > http://www.scratchbox.org/documentation/user/scratchbox-1.0/html/installdoc.html > and added info to the wiki pages at > http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/ScratchboxInstallation and > http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/ScratchboxTargetConfiguration. A lot of that > is just going through the motions, though. These steps seem to work, but I > have not seen any information as to why. > > > Looking at files in the > directory: http://scratchbox.org/download/files/sbox-releases/apophis/tarball/ > > > scratchbox-core-1.0.6-i386.tar.gz > scratchbox-core-1.0.7-i386.tar.gz > scratchbox-core-1.0.8-i386.tar.gz > scratchbox-core-1.0.9-i386.tar.gz > scratchbox-core-1.0.10-i386.tar.gz > > > A lot of things have these versions. What do they correspond to? > Looking at pages such > as http://www.scratchbox.org/download/scratchbox-0.9.5.html, I see no > correspondence between how versions on that list and the available > files. On the "Scratchbox 0.9.5" page, one sees: > > > # gcc-2.95.3 + 40 patches, glibc-2.2.4, binutils-2.12.1 to be used for > compiling kernels > # gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2, binutils-2.13.2.1 for non-kernel > compilations > > > So, would these correspond > to scratchbox-toolchain-cs2005q3.2-glibc-i386-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz or > to scratchbox-toolchain-cs2005q3.2-glibc-i386-1.0.5-i386.tar.gz? Is > there any connection at all between the versions numbers described in > the documentation on scratchbox.org and the file sets that are made > available? How does one find such a connection? > > > Ok, so assuming "later" means "better", one can just pick the latest > versions. Is that the best thing to do? > > > What about these? > > > scratchbox-toolchain-arm-linux-2007q1-21-1.0.7-i386.tar.gz > scratchbox-toolchain-arm-linux-cs344-2.3-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz > scratchbox-toolchain-arm-linux-ct401-2.3-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz > > > and > > > scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc3.4-uclibc0.9.28-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz > scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc4.1-uclibc20061004-1.0.4-i386.tar.gz > > > One has "uclibc" and "0.9.28" and "uclibc" and a date, "0061004". So > does "0.9.28" mean September 28, 2000? Presumably this version of the > compiler does not date from the Roman empire. And what are "ct" and > "cs" and 2007Q1 is when a company would have reported their income to > the SEC. Is it also a compiler version? > > > And we have scratchbox-devkit-apt-https-1.0.3-i386.tar.gz. > > > Why would apt and https go together? Why not git and https? Why not > perl and https? Is any of this documented, or is the way to find out > to look at all the source code? > > > The installdoc.html says things like: > > > Base (required): > scratchbox-core - environment, common tools and host compiler > scratchbox-libs - libraries required by core, devkits and > toolchains > Development kits (optional): > scratchbox-devkit-debian - environment and tools for Debian > development > scratchbox-devkit-doctools - document generation tools > scratchbox-devkit-perl - additional Perl modules > Toolchains (optional): > scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc3.3-glibc2.3 > scratchbox-toolchain-i686-gcc3.3-glibc2.3 > scratchbox-toolchain-arm-gcc3.2-uclibc20040229 > scratchbox-toolchain-i386-gcc3.2-uclibc20040229 > > > So helpful. Yes, the toolchains are optional, but is there really no > documentation on why one would choose one and not the other. > > > Are these things just obvious to everyone else using the tools? Where > can one find these things out? > > > Any suggestions are welcome. Or, there is a wiki. One that anyone can > add information to, anytime they want. > > > cheers - ray > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scratchbox-users mailing list > Scratchbox-users@lists.scratchbox.org > http://lists.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scratchbox-users _______________________________________________ Scratchbox-users mailing list Scratchbox-users@lists.scratchbox.org http://lists.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scratchbox-users
