From 8d5487c7dfa53ebb9f4bd2dc8596029b3d305533 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirtika Ruchandani Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:18:44 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Adding file with instructions and current image status --- README | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..193c8af --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +BUILD INSTRUCTIONS +------------------------------- + +*Adding to the recipe files: + +1.All the files except for the l10n folder go under ${OE_HOME}/openembedded/recipes/maemo-oe/ +2.The localization folder goes directly under ${OE_HOME}/openembedded/recipes +(Atleast it needs to, if you have your bitbake.conf taking recipes as within ${OEHOME}/openembedded/recipes/*/*.bb) +NOTE: The tarballs for hildon-desktop and hildon-desktop-python-loader are locally hosted. +The corresponding recipes use file:// in their SRC_URI +3. The image file, hildon-angstrom-image.bb goes under images. +4. For checksums.ini, merge into the existing one ???? + +* The above steps should let one get started with an image build. +* There are some *nasty* manual additions (aarrgghh) to the image as mentioned below: + +1. The dbus-launch binary is for some reason not added to the ipk, and to the rootfs. +I am adding it manually at the moment. +2. Other manual additions include a set of .desktop files for hildon-desktop, and a script +for getting the desktop environment started. The gdk-pixbuf ipk's binaries don't get pulled into +the rootfs at the moment, so they too are added that way. + +To deal with the above, extract the "add-me.tar.gz" tarball after cd-ing to / in your rootfs + + +RUNNING HILDON-DESKTOP +------------------------------- +1. Xorg & +2. sh /usr/bin/start-hildon + +(Start x11vnc between 1 and 2 if needed) + +KNOWN ISSUES +-------------------------------- +1. Locale support not working +2. Some icons dont load. +3. App. menu doesn't show the listing correctly, only filemanager is displayed in extras +4. Maemopad and maeopadplus etc cant save files. + + + -- 1.7.9.5