Re: Guile for Maemo / Nokia 770

[Neil Jerram]

Zeeshan Ali <address@hidden> writes:

>    GMP? What is that? :)

The GNU multiprecision arithmetic library, which is a dependency of
Guile 1.7/CVS.

> I don't rememeber needing to install anything other than what was
> already installed by sb/maemo but it was a few months ago and i can
> be wrong.

Were you building 1.6, or 1.7/CVS?

>    I did create the debs and tested them too but I don't have them
> anymore. :( But it was easy and i can make them again. But is there
> really a need? The .debs for guile provided by the official debian arm
> repos. works out of the box.

Oh, that's nice, I didn't think of that.  How do you make the normal
Debian .debs install to the right location, though?  Presumably the
Debian .debs install with prefix /usr, and I thought that Maemo
required some odd prefix like /var/lib/install?

(Also, if the Debian .debs work out of the box, why did you try to
build in scratchbox, out of interest?)

>> I wouldn't expect anything to need porting except for the Hildon API
>> graphical stuff mentioned above.
>
>    I don't think that requires any 'porting', we just need to wrap the
> hildon widgets. I can start to work on this but first i'll need to
> learn goops and g-wrap.

Please let me and the list know if you make progress on this, so that
we don't duplicate effort.

Regards,
        Neil