Linux on iPAQ hx4700

Building Ångström on Mageia 1

Install necessary packages

git version control system

$ sudo urpmi git

Python ply - lex and yacc parsing tools for Python

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ wget http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ply-3.4.tar.gz
$ tar xvzpf ./ply-3.4.tar.gz
$ sudo rsync -av ./ply-3.4/ply /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
$ rm -fr ./ply-3.4

Python progressbar - Python text mode progressbar

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ wget http://python-progressbar.googlecode.com/files/progressbar-2.3.tar.gz
$ tar xvzpf ./progressbar-2.3.tar.gz
$ sudo rsync -av ./progressbar-2.3/progressbar /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
$ rm -fr ./progressbar-2.3

Other packages

$ sudo urpmi python-devel python-psyco
$ sudo urpmi cvs gawk glibc-devel gcc-c++ subversion sharutils coreutils
$ sudo urpmi docbook-utils openjade
$ sudo urpmi quilt pcre-devel unzip glibc-static-devel
$ sudo urpmi texi2html chrpath texinfo

Build distro

Prepare project directory

$ PROJECT_DIR=/home/share/users/dambi/projects/hx4700/Angstrom/maintenance-2011.03
$ export PROJECT_DIR
$ mkdir -p $PROJECT_DIR

Download set of build scripts

$ cd $PROJECT_DIR
$ git clone git://git.angstrom-distribution.org/setup-scripts

switch to maintenance-2011.03 branch

$ cd ${PROJECT_DIR}/setup-scripts/
$ git checkout -b local maintenance-2011.03

Configure and build x11-gpe-image image for hx4700 machine

$ cd ${PROJECT_DIR}/setup-scripts/
$ MACHINE=hx4700 ./oebb.sh config hx4700
$ MACHINE=hx4700 ./oebb.sh update
$ MACHINE=hx4700 ./oebb.sh bitbake x11-gpe-image

Kernel and compressed root filesystem are located in ${PROJECT_DIR}/setup-scripts/build/tmp-angstrom_2008_1/deploy/glibc/images/hx4700/ directory, packages can be found in ${PROJECT_DIR}/setup-scripts/build/tmp-angstrom_2008_1/deploy/glibc/ipk/ directory.