Daniel’s Blog

After a somewhat difficult start into my new working life, including illness and missing school, tonight I’ve got some small but real work done. And what’s more I felt like my old hacker-self again. I think the last time I had this feeling of accomplishing something worthwhile in code was back in my huge gtkmm and gvim hacking days. It’s really not a good idea to only do stuff that nobody else will ever see, even if it is interesting and mind-bending. I used to do that way too much.

It feels good being back. And I’m going to blog more regularly too. Promise.

Maemo 2.0 requires the legacy Scratchbox 0.9.8 which does not support the amd64 architecture natively. However, I’m running Ubuntu on amd64 and managed to get Scratchbox working inside a 32-bit chroot environment. Scratchbox itself is built around chroot, so this approach has the weird consequence that I’m now running two nested chroot environments — like matryoshki.

In order to save others the hassle of figuring out how to set this up (read: Murray extorted it from me), I put together a little howto on the subject. Enjoy!