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[Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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