"make Install" In Pdax86 Fails?

[telemetric_au]

the /usr folder is read-only and not mounted in the RW "lazydisk", how can i install things ??

[Capn_Fish]

'make DESTDIR=/x/y/z install'?

[telemetric_au]

but what if its a Library ?? will it work-in with the system and other apps installed that way ?? (or ./configure --prefix=DESTDIR)

[Capn_Fish]

but what if its a Library ?? will it work-in with the system and other apps installed that way ?? (or ./configure --prefix=DESTDIR)
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First you do your ./configure --prefix=/usr (or wherever you want it INDEPENDENT OF WHERE YOU WANT TO INSTALL IT FOR PACKAGING), then you make it, then make DESTDIR=/x/y/z install ('z' is usually a dir called Data), which will add /x/y/z to the prefix FOR THIS INSTALL ONLY.

So if you had /usr/lib/x.so and you make DESTDIR=/x/y/z install'd it, you would have dir /x/y/z/usr/lib/x.so, but the prefix would still be /usr, if that makes sense, so when you turn the stuff in /x/y/z into a data.tar.gz file, it will install/uninstall correctly.

Hope that makes enough sense and isn't TOO repetitive. It's late...

[Meanie]

but what if its a Library ?? will it work-in with the system and other apps installed that way ?? (or ./configure --prefix=DESTDIR)
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are you trying to cross compile something for your Zaurus or compiling natively for pdaX86?

you don't want to put your arm libraries under /usr/lib on your X86 system anyway... and if you want to compile for X86, you are better off extracting the pdaX86 system into VMware and run the whole thing there and you can mount your partitions rw and allocate as much space as you want...
if you are booting off the pdaX86 cdrom, then there is an option to save your changes to the first parition of your harddisk on the PC, but that option didn't work properly in the earlier versions of pdaX86 which you are probably using...

[telemetric_au]

Meanie: both, initially im trying to compile naitvely for pdax86, to test and also while waiting for cross-sdk to dl ...

i did do the setup thingy and it work but doesnt include /usr in the list of directories it "saves"

can i use some of the later versions of pdax86 with 5500 cross sdk or do i need the image from that "tree".

can i get mroe info about the vmware extraction, ive used vm before and it sounds good, as then i dont need to be rebooting to do compiling  (and i can have full RW system ??)

ps- i was going to write before reading your post meanie about capn's, that you could install your libraries some where RW and the when you compile your apps, specify that location for the libraies they need, but itd be some more work and possibly prone to problems...

ALSO : CAN i test/exec arm compile binaries within pdax86 ?>

[Meanie]

Meanie: both, initially im trying to compile naitvely for pdax86, to test and also while waiting for cross-sdk to dl ...

i did do the setup thingy and it work but doesnt include /usr in the list of directories it "saves"

can i use some of the later versions of pdax86 with 5500 cross sdk or do i need the image from that "tree".

can i get mroe info about the vmware extraction, ive used vm before and it sounds good, as then i dont need to be rebooting to do compiling  (and i can have full RW system ??)

ps- i was going to write before reading your post meanie about capn's, that you could install your libraries some where RW and the when you compile your apps, specify that location for the libraies they need, but itd be some more work and possibly prone to problems...

ALSO : CAN i test/exec arm compile binaries within pdax86 ?>
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The cross sdk does not depend on a specific linux OS, but it would help to have one that has all the packages installed that it needs/depends on. I have tried both pdaX86 and DSL (damn small linux) and mainly used DSL for cross compiling since pdaX86 wouldn't boot in all of my laptops whereas DSL did.

If i remember correctly, there is a pre-made pdaX86 image for vmware which should work fine.

You will always run into problems with libraries and executables when cross compiling. Some programs compile their own little build utilitisies and run them to generate more stuff, ie mplayer and firefox, which will cause some troubles cross-compiling...
In general, if a program depends on some libraries, you will need to cross compile those libraries and place them somewhere where the cross compiler can access them, but pdaX86 should not load/run them since its the wrong architecture for pdaX86. pdaX86 cannot run arm binaries

There is however a arm emulator written for linux (search for vm-arm-se) which runs on debian 3.0 and suse 9.2 which you could potentially use to test command line binaries with, but that emulator was written primarily for testing Sharp ROM (Qtopia) binaries which use hard float rather than soft-vfp and also the glibc version is slightly different...