Re: [Witme-ferris] libferris as a backend for a Maemo 5 file manager

[lukash <lu...@em...>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:40:39 +0200 (CEST) Ben Martin
<mon...@us...> wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 23:45 +0200, lukash wrote:
> > Sorry for the delay, I was busy with other things...
> > 
> > On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:49:30 +0200 (CEST) Ben Martin
> > <mon...@us...> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > The configure will try to build code for anything it detects on the
> > > system. the Libferris library relies on a few other static libs that are
> > > built during the build. However, if you cd Ferris && make install then
> > > you will get just the libferris.so and headers.
> > > 
> > 
> > I can't however just do this, right? I need to run ./configure before?
> 
> indeed.
> 
> > 
> > I installed xerces-c-2.7.0 on my Funtoo box. But right after it I ran
> > into another problem with fampp2. Its in the Funtoo (Gentoo) "repo",
> > but it depends on ferrisloki-3.0.1 which failed to build (see attached
> > ferrisloki_build_log if interested).
> 
> hmm, I'll have to dig into that when I get a moment. It builds fine for
> me on Fedora 11,12,13.
> 
> You could also try the latest (3.0.3) of ferrisloki from source...
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/witme/files/
> 

I'll try that when time permits..

> > 
> > So I figure if its this problematic to build on a laptop, it will be
> > even worse for maemo. I thought I'd have a look at the packages you
> > made for Chinook (was it Chinook?), but I can't find them anywhere. Are
> > they in the official repos? If I had source packages for those, it
> > should not be hard to get them to work on N900?
> 
> http://fuuko.libferris.com/maemo/repository/binary/
> 
> I can upload snapshots of the source directories that made these if you
> like. Mostly its just plain old debian packaging.

I would really appreciate that, seems like you don't make the source
packages? Does it also contain the build scripts that work in maemo? If
not could you upload those too? That would be great... It seems like it
has a whole lot of dependencies, I really wonder if I'll be able to put
it together...

> 
> > 
> > cheers
> > lukash
>