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DenisB: /* Misc 1 : Qemu launching */ script works undder FC17 and armadeus5.0, too

2012-09-02T14:19:09Z

‎Misc 1 : Qemu launching: script works undder FC17 and armadeus5.0, too

DenisB: /* Misc 2 */ typos

2012-01-19T10:18:53Z

‎Misc 2: typos

DenisB: /* Misc 2 */

2012-01-10T16:10:53Z

‎Misc 2

DenisB: /* Misc 1 : Qemu launching */

2012-01-10T16:05:02Z

‎Misc 1 : Qemu launching

DenisB: /* Misc 2 */ Added a picture of joe'editor at work

2012-01-09T15:57:00Z

‎Misc 2: Added a picture of joe'editor at work

DenisB: /* Misc 2 */

2012-01-09T15:55:00Z

‎Misc 2

DenisB: /* Misc 2 */

2011-12-02T14:47:17Z

‎Misc 2

DenisB: /* Misc 2 */

2011-12-02T10:30:34Z

‎Misc 2

DenisB: /* Misc 2 */

2011-12-02T10:29:52Z

‎Misc 2

DenisB: /* Misc 2 */

2011-12-01T16:05:54Z

‎Misc 2

← Older revision		Revision as of 14:19, 2 September 2012
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	Nota : this script has been tested and run with some satisfaction for more than one month on Scientific Linux - 5.7 (a Red Hat clone, able to mount NTFS partitions and having a live DVD),Fedora 16 and a Mageia-1: emulated cards were apf9328 and apf27.		Nota : this script has been tested and run with some satisfaction for more than one month on Scientific Linux - 5.7 (a Red Hat clone, able to mount NTFS partitions and having a live DVD),Fedora 16 and a Mageia-1: emulated cards were apf9328 and apf27.
		+	(it is also used with Armadeus-5.0, under Fedora 17)
	The only flaw I could notice with SL-5.x was the absence of qemu on their live DVD (it is difficult to have a package manager add stuff on a RO media...) , which could be recompiled from source in a RW part of a disk with little trouble.		The only flaw I could notice with SL-5.x was the absence of qemu on their live DVD (it is difficult to have a package manager add stuff on a RO media...) , which could be recompiled from source in a RW part of a disk with little trouble.

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       arm-linux-strip joe
     ls -l joe >> joestrip.txt
-# puts joe into armadeus files ans prepears installation
+# puts joe into armadeus files and prepares installation
+#
-    cp joe ../tftboot/. # it is ready to be shiped to an emulated card..
+    cp joe ../tftboot/. # it is ready to be shipped to an emulated card..
       mkdir .././tftboot/usrlocalshare
       cp -rpvf ${JOERROT}/share/joe  .././tftboot/usrlocalshare/.

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 Natively, armadeus is shipped with nano, a very simple version of vi (not like vim) and uemacs. If one needs some features like syntax highlighting (for shell/lua scripting)  , noone of them is satisfying (and a full version of vim can be installed, but is space-consuming).
-A light solution can be found with joe [http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/], which offers syntax-highlighting (I noticed that 10% of my errors could be avoided with such a feature).
+A light solution can be found with joe [http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/], which offers in-line help and syntax-highlighting (I noticed that 10% of my errors could be avoided with such a feature).
-The easiest solution is to compile it from source, test it and train oneself with it,  and to modify the make invocation to use Armadeus's cross compiler instead of gcc, which leads to the following script one should execute on ones PC:
+The easiest solution is to compile it from source for one's PC, test it and train oneself with it,  and to modify the make invocation to use Armadeus's cross compiler instead of gcc, which leads to the following script one should execute on one's PC:
 <source lang="bash">
     JOEROOT=/usr/local/ # in both the PC and the (emulated) Armadeus card tomake things simple....
-       cd /usr/local/armadeus-4.0/# both these lines depend on your installation and should be adapted
+       cd /usr/local/armadeus-4.0/# these  3 lines depend on your installation and should obviously be adapted
        cd ~/armadeus-4.0/
        cd joe-3.7/ # joe's source tree is located here
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     # one removes x86 binaries, then one builds for arm
     make clean && make CC=arm-linux-gcc
-   # some tests
+   # some tests (mainly of strip)
     echo "unstripped joe " > joestrip.txt
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       arm-linux-strip joe
     ls -l joe >> joestrip.txt
+# puts joe into armadeus files ans prepears installation
     cp joe ../tftboot/. # it is ready to be shiped to an emulated card..
       mkdir .././tftboot/usrlocalshare
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 </source>
-In this configuration, joe can be activated from an emulated card, its help appears but there is no syntax highligting. The ressource files/folders necessary to syntax highlight , however, have been shipped (they are ASCII files, valid on a x86 and an arm) but need to be on the right place. This can be achievd by executing, under an emulated board, a script like that:
+In this configuration, joe can be activated from an emulated card, its help appears but there is no syntax highligting (it was meant for!) . The ressource files/folders necessary to syntax highlight , however, have been shipped (they are ASCII files, valid on a x86 and an arm) but need to be on the right place. This can be achieved by executing, under an emulated board, a script like that:
 <source lang=bash>

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 '''1) A script to make qemu launching automatic'''
-Sometimes, the list of commands one has to type as host can be very long and tedious; and forgetting to type one of them leads to unpleasant results (ex : a mounted image should be unmounted before being used by qemu)
+Sometimes, the list of commands one has to type as host can be very long and tedious; and forgetting to type one of them might lead to unpleasant results (ex : a mounted image should be unmounted before being used by qemu)
-a bash script like  this one, once adapted, might give ideas to avoid errors..
+a bash script like  this one, once adapted, might give ideas to avoid errors and typos..
 <source lang="bash">

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 </source>
-After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say: - tar exists with Busy Box_ but this way can give opportunities of easily removing some syntax files, if they are felt unuseful), syntax highlight works...
+After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say: - a simple tar exists with Busy Box or a full version can be installed- but this way can give opportunities of easily removing some syntax files, if they are felt unuseful), syntax highlight works...
 One can seen a screenshot here (joe is launched from a qemu-lated armadeus, the host system being a Fedora Core 16, with KDE as desktop manager):
 [[image:snapshot_qemu_joe1.png|center|frame|thumb|'''figure 1''' - ''a session with Joe's editor'']]

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:55, 9 January 2012
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	</source>		</source>

−	After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say: as tar exists with Busy ~~Box,~~ but this way can give opportunities of easily removing some syntax files, if they are felt unuseful), syntax highlight works...	+	After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say: - tar exists with Busy Box_ but this way can give opportunities of easily removing some syntax files, if they are felt unuseful), syntax highlight works...
		+	One can seen a screenshot here (joe is launched from a qemu-lated armadeus, the host system being a Fedora Core 16, with KDE as desktop manager):
		+	[[image:snapshot_qemu_joe1.png\|center\|frame\|thumb\|'''figure 1''' - ''a session with Joe's editor'']]

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 [ -d /usr/local/share ] || mkdir /usr/local/share
 [ -d /usr/local/etc ] || mkdir /usr/local/etc
-mv   /usr/local/bin/usrlocalshare/joe /usr/local/share/.
+\mv   /usr/local/bin/usrlocalshare/joe /usr/local/share/.
-\mv /usr/local/bin/usrlocalshare/joe /usr/local/share/.
+\mv /usr/local/bin/usrlocaletc/joe /usr/local/etc/.
 </source>
-After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say: as tar exists wth the busy box, but this way can give opportunities of removing language syntax files, if they are unuseful), syntax highlight works...
+After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say: as tar exists with Busy Box, but this way can give opportunities of easily removing some syntax files, if they are felt unuseful), syntax highlight works...

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:30, 2 December 2011
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	</source>		</source>

−	After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say as tar exists wth the busy box, but this way can give opportunities of removing language syntax files, if they are unuseful), ~~syntx~~ highlight works...	+	After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say: as tar exists wth the busy box, but this way can give opportunities of removing language syntax files, if they are unuseful), syntax highlight works...

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:29, 2 December 2011
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	</source>		</source>

−	In this configuration, joe can be activated from an emulated card, its help appears but there is no syntax highligting. The ressource files/folders necessary to syntax highlight , however, have been shipped (they are ASCII files, valid on a x86 and an arm) but need to be on the right place.	+	In this configuration, joe can be activated from an emulated card, its help appears but there is no syntax highligting. The ressource files/folders necessary to syntax highlight , however, have been shipped (they are ASCII files, valid on a x86 and an arm) but need to be on the right place. This can be achievd by executing, under an emulated board, a script like that:
		+
		+	<source lang=bash>
		+	[ -d /usr/local/share ] \|\| mkdir /usr/local/share
		+	[ -d /usr/local/etc ] \|\| mkdir /usr/local/etc
		+	mv /usr/local/bin/usrlocalshare/joe /usr/local/share/.
		+	\mv /usr/local/bin/usrlocalshare/joe /usr/local/share/.
		+	</source>
		+
		+	After this installation (there are better ones, based on tar files, say as tar exists wth the busy box, but this way can give opportunities of removing language syntax files, if they are unuseful), syntx highlight works...

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 Natively, armadeus is shipped with nano, a very simple version of vi (not like vim) and uemacs. If one needs some features like syntax highlighting (for shell/lua scripting)  , noone of them is satisfying (and a full version of vim can be installed, but is space-consuming).
 A light solution can be found with joe [http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/], which offers syntax-highlighting (I noticed that 10% of my errors could be avoided with such a feature).
-The easiest solution is to compile it from source, test it and train oneself with it,  and to modify the make invocation to use Armadeus's cross compiler instead of gcc, which leads to the following script:
+The easiest solution is to compile it from source, test it and train oneself with it,  and to modify the make invocation to use Armadeus's cross compiler instead of gcc, which leads to the following script one should execute on ones PC:
        cd /usr/local/armadeus-4.0/# both these lines depend on your installation and should be adapted
        cd ~/armadeus-4.0/
        cd joe-3.7/ # joe's source tree is located here
        ici=`pwd`
        make clean # first, removes everything (might be arm's binaries)
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       cp -rpvf ${JOERROT}/etc/joe  .././tftboot/usrlocaletc/.
       # history >joestory