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[Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:26 AM, David Planella
<david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Mauricio,
>
> Rather than the wiki, I'd suggest to check out the porting guide pages on
> the developer site, in particular:
>
> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-for-devices/porting-new-device/#dev-setup
>
      Interesting you mention that URL; since my long goal was to port
a device (more like resurrecting one that has not been touched since
2013), I first went on that url. But then found the wiki one, which is
a link in the one above, and had to decide which one was canon.

> I set up the wiki page to redirect to the site to make sure there is only
> one set of information now.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Simos Xenitellis
>> <simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Quick question: Is the list
>> >>
>> >> sudo apt-get install git gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
>> >>   zip bzr curl libc6-dev libncurses5-dev:i386 x11proto-core-dev \
>> >>   libx11-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 \
>> >>   libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos \
>> >>   python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc zlib1g-dev:i386 schedtool
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> stolen from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Building accurate?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I suppose for Ubuntu 14.04 it should be still accurate.
>> >
>> > These are development packages to install.
>> > What you would normally do, is continue with the rest of the compilation
>> > and if you get an error for missing packages, identify the package,
>> > install it and then add it to the list.
>> > If you install more packages than needed, you would probably not have
>> > any adverse effect.
>> > The important part from above is the ':i386' for some packages.
>> > For example, if compilation complains about libreadline missing but
>> > you have libreadline installed,
>> > you apparently need the i386 dev version of the package (sudo apt-get
>> > install libreadline6-dev:i386).
>> >
>> > Personally, if I have a freshly installed Ubuntu, I would not install
>> > such packages at all,
>> > follow the next commands and only install missing packages based on
>> > any errors that are encountered.
>> > That way, I would get a fresh list of required packages for my
>> > specific Ubuntu version.
>> >
>>       Thanks for the info. The reason I am asking is that I want to
>> automate the building of the development environment. So I kinda want
>> to know which packages I should feed it to get a nice and happy dev
>> box. You know, tell it "build dev thingie" and then go do groceries
>> and when I get back home it is ready for business.
>>
>> So, right now I am working on getting the packages and which order
>> they should be grabbed.
>>
>> > Simos
>>
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