Hi there
I'm going back to the initial purpose of this thread - Sorry if I catch up a bit late on this.
fyi, I am not using the unit as a pda for my daily work, so I am probably not typical. I dont care much about the UI as such, but others did extensively address this before.
I've been building some packages such as tcl/tk (the devel ipkg was nowhere to be found), tcpdump, and was planning to make rsync and cvs. I am also interested in audio/video tools such as vic and rat, videolan. Of interest to me is also linux-wlan-ng and I found in another thread that someone had ipkg'ed that already.
I tried both the cross-compiler and native sdk's. At this stage I would need a few enhancements if I was to improve my building rate.
- gdb not working (i.e. not triggering breakpoints) is a major drawback. I figured this was a known bug and really hope this is fixed by now.
- cross-compiling is way faster but still has annoying bugs. Apart for the usual configure specials that cannot run in x mode, I found out the cc1 frontend to generate x86 asembler instructions occasionally (when building tcpdump I encountered that on quite a few source files). When this happens I have to switch to the native toolchain, and for that rsync will be much helpful.
Getting a more extensive ipkg feed would be a great improvement for pdaxrom. btw, I would volunteer to package some of these softwares - and get a devel account if needed - if the current issues could be fixed.
