Scratchbox environment

[Vaughn Treude]

Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
>> Hello everyone:
>> I'm trying to compile something for my Nokia 770 (which runs Linux, so 
>> this post is not OT.  :-) )  I found a tool called "scratchbox" on 
>> maemo.org; which seems to build a virtual "sandbox" distro on your 
>> system.  I got it installed but am having trouble getting it set up 
>> correctly.  Has anyone ever dealt with this stuff?
>> Vaughn
> 

I almost got it working, then became terribly busy again and didn't 
finish.  The problem that was dogging me was that a file didn't have its 
permissions set right.  If the file actually loads and runs on my Nokia 
I'll be shocked.  :-)
It's a clever idea - hadn't run into that manifestation of the sandbox 
concept before.  The tutorial on the Maemo website was helpful yet 
confusing because URLs were changed and utilities updated.  Can't really 
complain about a free product, but it did take a while for me to figure 
out.  Some of the paths weren't set, I had to create a few links here 
and there.  It was no doubt made more difficult because it was written 
for Debian and I'm running Mandrake.  I'll keep you guys posted.

Vaughn

> I haven't used scratchbox, but I have written a script to build my own (home
> grown) sandbox for the qmail-toaster project. The sandbox is rather bloated
> (includes a lot of stuff that isn't really needed), but it has an option to
> build it with hard links to save disk space. You can browse the script at
> http://trac.shubes.net/qtp/browser/trunk/bin/qtp-build-sandbox or wget it
> from http://svn.shubes.net/qtp/bin/qtp-build-sandbox.
> 
> HTH
>