Psion-ebuilds?

SNo0py · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 2:40 pm Post subject: Psion-ebuilds?

Hello out there,

has anyone a Sync-Software for a Psion installed? How have you done this, can you make an ebuild?

Thanx,
M.
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cphax · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 7

I presume you mean something like PsiLin ? I used to have that one on my old RH-box... it needs a lot of other utilities to make it work, but that's why there's portage, i guess

I don't think an ebuild would be difficult to make... i might actually have a go on my copious free time.

But, slightly offtopic, I first thought that the subject meant crosscompiling gentoo for psion! Now that would be neat... I presume you're aware of the PsiLinux project, which is debian based. But imagine a gentoo-based linux for your Psion... *drool*

SNo0py · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 12:17 pm Post subject:

Hi!
No, i don't want to run Gentoo on my Psion, it's just working fine, fast & stable!

But I want to make a Backup of my Psion-files and mayby convert some Word- and other Files into a PC-Readable format. But just a Backup (=mount /psion

) would be fine...
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cphax · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 7

Ah, ok... then PsiLin and the associated utilities are pretty much what you want.

Lets see if i have the time to generate ebuilds for the packages.

Personally, I have a compactflash and a reader to keep my psion (running linux, but same applies to EPOC) in sync with my desktop computer.

SNo0py · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 12:58 pm Post subject:

That would be nice!

/me is not so savy with installing without emerge, but maybe I'll try... lets see

BTW, I've a Psion Revo +, so there is no way for working with a compactflash

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dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

I've used the plptools with Mandrake. Haven't tried them with Gentoo yet.
They include support to connect your psion, doing backups, ... and there is a small QT frontend as well.
The project is still active and can be found here http://plptools.sourceforge.net/

dark_priest · Apprentice Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 227 Location: NL

dark_priest · Apprentice Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 227 Location: NL

ok fixed that

USE= -kde

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Roguelazer · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject:

I spent a -long- time helping another forum member get plptools working. I forget how we did it, but it involved ebuild hacking. Oh, and plptools is worthless with -kde because then there's no front-end and everything becomes exponentially difficult... The gist of it was that kdb2html is in kdelibs2 (as opposed to kdelibs3), so you need to modify the ebuild to use the new app. Or something. I forget. Hopefully the guy I helped remembers.
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dark_priest · Apprentice Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 227 Location: NL

no dude, works like a charm withoud KDE.

MickKi · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:00 am Post subject:

Hi Roguelazer!

MickKi · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject:

OK, something must have been wrong with my unstable box. I've reinstalled a stable system and now plptools compiles and installs nicely!

Let's hope the devs sort out the ebuild as per suggestion in bug #62245.

Thanks again Roguelazer!
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ma_clanger · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 1

Thanks Roguelazer for the fix, and MickKi for posting the details to bugzilla. I wouldn't have found this otherwise

Roguelazer · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject:

All this and I didn't even respond.

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kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

Hey. I get the following error when emerging (even with the patch applied as suggested):

kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

bump... anyone out there willing to help me get my psion working?

thx

kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

Hey. The bug here pretty much states you'll have to use gcc 3.3.x:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62245

Is there a workaround to this maybe?

MickKi · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject:

Blast!

Something is amiss. I am using gcc-3.3.5-20050130 and just tried reinstalling it. Unfortunately it fails with the same error (KDE headers).

No idea why this is happening now.

EDIT: I've tried first emerging docbook2html and then emerging plptools (without Roquelazers patch) as Jason Wong suggests in bug 62245 and it also fails with the same error. This seems to be Qt related. I've had a corrupt /var and /usr/lib partitions lately and wonder it it has something to do with it. I am re-emerging Qt now to see if this fixes it.

EDIT_2: Nope, re-emerging Qt does not fix it. What next?!

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kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

did you try the ebuild in the bugs link (0.12-r1)?

I had header errors then tried the patch and it worked. However it still doesn't compile

Does someone know how I could compile this quick without having to downgrade gcc?

I could use some other distro's rpm's and then use rpm2tar but it seems really messy

The files get dumped all over your system and you can't just "emerge -C" to get rid of it

MickKi · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

Yes, I have been using Roguelazer's 0.12-r1 hack for more than a year now and have advertised it widely as a temporary solution, but the devs do not seem particularly interested in our good old Psions.

Yesterday my machine started playing up during a Psion backup (the backup would just freeze and Kpsion would go to sleep) so I thought of re-emerging it. It didn't and came up with the same header error like yours. Then I tried the docbook2html solution but it also failed with the KDE headers error. Then I re-emerged Qt, failed again, kdelibs, failed again . . . so, I'm out of options until someone more knowledgeable than I finds a fix (or until the next Qt comes out?).

Other packages compiling against Qt don't seem to have a problem though.

EDIT:I've added it to bug 62245
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MickKi · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

Hi All,

I have found an interim solution which overcomes the KDE-headers problem and describe it in bug 62245.
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MickKi · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject: plptools-0.12 downgrade

It seems that plptools is now downgraded to 0.11-r1. Has anyone tried it?

I am loathed to downgrade now that I managed to get 0.12 to emerge on my machine . . . :evil:

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kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

Hi.

I see everyone mentioning the KDE error, but what about the GCC one? The one that (under GCC3.4) produces:

MickKi · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

Hi kLy,

Did you try plptools-0.11-r1?
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