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[David Peter <maildavidpeter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great
I totally agree with you about the  documentation. When I built it it was
couple months ago and there was less information and it was definitely more
straight forward.
I don't know what happen to that making it so messy now. I guess a lot of
things has changed in the process, and the  documentation didn't follow
properly?
You reached the same point of  experiments and knowledge as I on this
subject.
Now there is new things that I need to figure out.
You could remark reading the manifest that this building process use
pre-built package. So where are the sources and how to build them if you
want to change code, or fix things? What is the complete process for
modifying code, building a complete system, flash it, and that's it it
works. I don't know yet. I should find some spare to time to investigate,
figure out properly the whole process and then write a documentation about
it.
On Mar 19, 2014 9:50 AM, "Mathias Bauer" <mathias_bauer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Am 18.03.14 15:06, schrieb David Peter:
>
>> "I don't know where the difference comes from, but now I don't get the
>> error about a missing spec file anymore."
>>
>> Figure it out is definitely the best knowledge, skills, teaching, you
>> could have.
>>
>
> Of course, and in fact I found out that the important difference was the
> installation of the jdk. The building instructions in the Ubuntu wiki don't
> require the installation, so I did not install it. But it seems that
> "breakfast" not only bails out when no jdk is found, it also seems to work
> insufficiently.
>
> The build afterwards complains that I'm using an "unsupported version" of
> java, but I think that doesn't matter as I would be surprised if Java is
> needed for the build.
>
>  About the binaries blobs I don't know cause I was working on a
>> hammerhead port and I only built the real CM. I know that I didn't
>> encounter difficulties with that part. And I also know that I didn't
>> need to install CM.
>>
>
> It seems that the file extraction does only work from CM, at least for
> Nexus 4. If the phone still runs Android, some of the files in the list
> definitely are not where the list wants to find them. So instead of copying
> the files from the device, I copied them from an unzipped CM 10.1 and then
> I was able to build.
>
> I really would like to understand the system better, but the situation
> around documentation is really frustrating. Most of the time some not so
> unimportant details are missing that might be clear for the experts, but
> confuse the newbie. As an example, installing the built images as explained
> in Touch/Building will not give me a running Ubuntu Touch installation, the
> phone just shows a "Google" screen and adb shell opens a busybox shell on
> the phone. I'm sure that this is correct, but shouldn't that be mentioned
> in the documentation?
>
> Regards,
> Mathias
>
>