Re: Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 testing

Last month I attempted to build Opie in both Familiar and Angstrom
distribution environments. Both failed for me. I ran both distros on my
hx4700, but found the X11 distro way to much of a step back from Opie to
continue using it. I then went back to Familiar and got my other support
apps working. Yesterday I switched back to Angstrom to test it, and I would
really like to stay.

I really need to get the development environment up and running because there
are some packages that I've grown very accustomed to, and I expect to have to
port them over and contribute them back to Angstrom. There are some others
that I have always wanted ported but, just haven't had the time or
environment setup to get it done.

I've been doing my own apps in PyQt for awhile now and can hardly wait for a
Qt4 based distro. That was why I was almost willing to go with X11. I've
been doing Qt3 development then commenting out the few lines of problem UIC
code from my PyQt programs. It works well enough for now.

I've also been doing database work against sqlite3 for awhile. I started
using SQLAlchemy to see how it worked and rewrote some of my apps that way.
That is one of the packages that I would really like to port over to the iPAQ
so that I could use my newer code base.

Do you have any tips on setting up the build environment from scratch? I've
done this a few years back before it was named bitbake. I realize that it
always seems like there is a problem package. I just don't have time for a
half dozen of them. Each "problem" build seems to take an evening or two to
figured out what has changed from the working bitbake and/or CVS tree. On
the plus side, once you have everything built it works great.

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