Building Midgard 1.9 for maemo

I should say trying to build instead of building it for maemo. Though libmidgard10 and libapache2-mod-midgard are already installed on my N800. Again, list of dependencies is the key for success.

I changed debian files ( rules and control ), so rules file generates control file correctly when package is built. For example when I build package for maemo a section is replaced with user/libs' and architecture type witharmelinstead ofi386` which is generated when I build package for x86 architecture

Big issue with packages builds is naming convetion, so it's impossible to create correct debian files ( mostly Depends: section ) for every architecture. Your package might depends on apache2-mpm-prefork, while someone called it just httpd for maemo. This package also includes header files, so you do not have to install apache2-prefork-dev, and also apr binaries, but weird thing is that it doesn't include apr header files.

Workaround for this is ( easiest I found ):

cp -r /usr/include/apr-1.0 /scratchbox/users/pp/targets/SDK_ARMEL/usr/include/

As maemo packages are built as debian packages, one could also keep any naming convention so apxs2 could stay apxs2 and apr includes could be defined for apr-1.0, and not for apr-1.

MySQL used everywhere on debian distros with version 5.0 is build with version 4.1 for maemo.

Those are issues, one might and can to resolve quite quickly. But the real problem I found with php5-fastcgi package. To build php extension I need header files ( those I can just copy ) and phpize tool. Lack of latter is an issue :)

I need to investigate it more. And for those interested I used these packages:

• https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mysqldatabase/
• https://garage.maemo.org/projects/apache/

And debian repository:

deb http://maemo-hackers.org/apt bora main

BTW, if you need to install php5-fastcgi in your scratchbox, you might to want to change default httpd port. I changed mine from 80 to 8080. Without it I got `Permission denied' when being logged in as fakeroot and "wanted to bind" to port 80.