Building programs

[spg666]

Before I start, let me give you a bit of back ground. I'm using a EeePC running ASUS's butchered version of Xandros. The build environment is totally messed up, so I need to be able to build my programs on a different disto for the ASUS version of Xandros. Is this possible and if so how?

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

I'm told the Ubuntu Netbook Remix works great on EeePCs. There are a few distros that are made especially for those computers.

Amy

[waterhead]

You can install an operating system on a 8GB SD card, and boot from that. That is what I did with my Eee PC. This way you can evaluate it without harming the original OS. Just don't install GRUB to the internal hard drive, install it to the SD

My 900 came with a 4GB SSD, so the 8GB SD card actually doubled my space. When booting, you will need to select the SD card to boot from. On the 900, pressing the Esc key at the first screen brings up the boot menu.

I did sometimes get boot errors about it not having previously shut down cleanly. I found that this was because a module was hanging up. You may not have this problem.

You could also install to a USB drive. This works great too!

[spg666]

I've tried a few other distros but I've tweak the default xandros to work the way I lie it and I'm happy to continue using it as my main OS. The downside of switching to another linux distro is you loose some of the hotkeys and power management.

I want to build some packages from source for this distro but on another distro/pc is it possible ?

[waterhead]

You would need to have the same distribution and kernel on the other computer. Isn't Xandros a Debian based distro? Maybe you can install the same kernel n Debian, then build your packages.

[reed9]

I don't know too much about it, but the OpenSuse Build Service may be able to help you out.

You may run into trouble because Xandros uses some custom libraries and packages, however - it isn't fully compatible with Debian.

[spg666]

thanks for the suggestions, in the end I build a virtual machine with the Asus version of xandros, and prevented it from being updated from the repos. I was then able to install the necessary libraries and tools to build the package...

[sarlacii]

Ah, good soln. I was going to suggest an install of a similar distro (depending on what your app required for dependencies), then roll packages back/forward to get the same setup. Then compile packages. Your way is easier. :o)

[spg666]

Ah, good soln. I was going to suggest an install of a similar distro (depending on what your app required for dependencies), then roll packages back/forward to get the same setup. Then compile packages. Your way is easier. :o)

It might not be, to get it to work in the virtual machine I has to switch to using a VESA graphic driver. Normally I suspect this wouldn't make a difference but I used it to compile EDuke32 (a game engine) . When I ran the program on my real machine it used a software 8 bit mode instead of 32bit openGL.

Might have to try it your way.