Latest revision as of 16:56, 22 December 2012

Intro[edit]

Navit on Nokia N810

This is a work in progress: I tried to build Navit svn for my Nokia n810 using the OpenEmbedded cross-compile environment, just like I did for my Ångström.
These notes were made during the process. It's sort of a howto.
Navit now fully works but there are a few things left to be 'optimised'. It is by no means perfect or complete but shows my progress at this time (february/march 2009) with the issues needing attention. Maybe, by the time you reed this, the issues I found are already fixed, or new ones popped up. Feedback is welcome.

The n810 is running OS2008.
My PC is running Fedora 10 on AMD x86_64.
I got a considerable amount of tips from gerritv from #navit on freenode while getting navit to work well on n810. Thanks!

Notes[edit]

First read the info from http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_Started
Then set up the build environment along the info from http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom with these differences:
Do get bitbake bitbake 1.8.12.
Do get the OE development branch:

 cd /OE 
 git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded.git org.openembedded.dev 
 cd org.openembedded.dev
 git checkout -b org.openembedded.dev origin/org.openembedded.dev

See my build/conf/local.conf near the bottom of this page.

Edit org.openembedded.dev/conf/distro/chinook-compat.conf and change:

 PREFERRED_VERSION_expat            = "1.95.7"

into

 PREFERRED_VERSION_expat            = "2.0.0"

and

 PREFERRED_VERSION_dbus             = "1.0.3"

into

 PREFERRED_VERSION_dbus             = "1.0.2"

Then edit the navit line in org.openembedded.dev/conf/distro/include/sane-srcrevs.inc to say:

 SRCREV_pn-navit ?= "2580"

(or the svn number you want to build, see svn)

In org.openembedded.dev/packages/navit/navit.inc you can remove the EXTRA_OECONF line.

My org.openembedded.dev/packages/navit/navit_svn.bb is near the bottom of this page. As you can see there, the build uses libosso and libhildon so the + and - on top of device should zoom in or out; also gps should start automatically when we link libgpsbt and libgpsmgr.
We build navit with gpsd-2.30 to get libgps15 which is deliverd by osso-gpsd-1.0 on the n810.

Next, go to the main dir of the build environment (/OE) and type:

 bitbake navit

The system will be busy for some time.
Drink some coffee...

When the bitbake build is ready, go to the chinook-compat-tmp/deploy/deb/armv6 directory to find your packages.

We edit control.tar.gz in the navit_*.deb to remove dependency info about libgobject-2.0-0, libgmodule-2.0-0 and libgthread-2.0-0 which are all on the system but dpkg doesn't know about.
Also we change the dependency for libgps17 into osso-gpsd.
So we get something like this control file:

 Package: navit
 Version: 0.1.0+svn2087-r1
 Description: Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.
 Section: x11/applications
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: OpenEmbedded Team <openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>
 Architecture: armel
 OE: navit
 Homepage: unknown
 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.74), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.12), osso-gpsd (>= 1.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.1), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.14), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.4.10), zlib1g (>= 1.2.3), libgcc1 (>= 3.4.4cs2005q3.2)
 Recommends: gpsd, speechd, flite

Reassemble a fresh deb using the info:

 vi control
 tar cvzpf conrol.tar.gz control
 ar -r navit_2087.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz 

Install and configure this reassembled deb as described (see Configuration).
E.g. try the Internal GUI for a graphical menu, fullscreen map, OSD, POI, etc.
Specific tips for configuring navit for n8x0/n770 can be found here.

Issues[edit]

kernel patch[edit]

You might need this patch if you get an error during kernel compilation of 2.6.21 about PATH_MAX:

 diff -r 557a4a0a5eac scripts/mod/sumversion.c
 --- a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c	Fri May 30 19:08:50 2008 +0100
 +++ b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c	Mon Jun 02 19:47:43 2008 +0900
 @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  #include <errno.h>
  #include <string.h>
  #include "modpost.h"
 +#include <linux/limits.h>
 
  /*
   * Stolen form Cryptographic API.

gpsd patch[edit]

To build gpsd 2.30 you need this patch.

libgpsmgr patch[edit]

Currently compilation of libgpsmgr works on my system, with some patching:

 --- libgpsmgr-0.1/configure.ac	2009-03-06 15:56:14.000000000 +0100
 +++ libgpsmgr-0.1/configure.ac	2009-03-06 15:57:57.000000000 +0100
 @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 -AC_INIT(Makefile.am)
 -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libgpsmgr, patsubst(esyscmd([dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n '/^Version: \(.*\)$/ {s//\1/;p}']), [
 -]))
 +AC_INIT([Makefile.am], [0.1])
 +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([libgpsmgr], [0.1])
  AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
  AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug, [AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-debug],[Debug (default=no)])])

libgpsbt patch[edit]

Compilation of libgpsbt works on my system with:

 --- libgpsbt-0.1/configure.ac	2009-03-06 15:59:11.000000000 +0100
 +++ libgpsbt-0.1/configure.ac	2009-03-06 15:59:42.000000000 +0100
 @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 -AC_INIT(Makefile.am)
 -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libgpsbt, patsubst(esyscmd([dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n '/^Version: \(.*\)$/ {s//\1/;p}']), [
 -]))
 +AC_INIT([Makefile.am], [0.1])
 +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([libgpsbt], [0.1])
  AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
  AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug, [AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-debug],[Debug (default=no)])])

libgpsbt bug report[edit]

See the bug report about libgpsmgr and libgpsbt.

To do[edit]

The libgpsbt issue is the biggest problem to fix. Currently navit works but the workaround to get there is ugly. configure should detect the libgpsbt package automagically.
I need a little help here; perhaps the .pc file is the solution?

Misc stuff[edit]

bitbake[edit]

Usefull reading: bitbake manual.

n810 gps[edit]

FAQ

libhildon[edit]

You might want to go to this site and fetch the meta-maemo git tree. In there you'll find a recipe for a more recent libhildon. Copy the bb file into the maemo4 package directory of org.embedded.dev and adjust the version number in chinook-compat.conf.
E.g. change:

 PREFERRED_VERSION_libhildon = "1.99.0"

into

 PREFERRED_VERSION_libhildon = "2.0.4"

armv6[edit]

In org.openembedded.dev/conf/distro/chinook-compat.conf you could change

 FEED_ARCH_nokia800            = "armv5te"

into

 FEED_ARCH_nokia800             = "armv6"

if you're on Nokia n8x0.

ksvgtopng[edit]

For converting the svg's to png's you could install librsvg2 and use this fake ksvgtopng in e.g. /usr/local/bin which wraps rsvg:

 #!/bin/sh
 if [ x$4 != x ] ; then
 	rsvg -w $1 -h $2 $3 $4 $5
 fi

This wrapper has been obsoleted by svn 2088. Just add "--with-svg2png-use-rsvg-convert" to the configure options to use rsvg directly.

Files[edit]

local.conf[edit]

build/conf/local.conf:

 # Where to store sources 
 DL_DIR = "/home/udo/downloads" 
 
 # Which files do we want to parse: 
 BBFILES := "/usr/src/OE/org.openembedded.dev/packages/*/*.bb" 
 BBMASK = "" 
 
 # ccache always overfill $HOME.... 
 CCACHE="" 
 
 # What kind of images do we want? 
 IMAGE_FSTYPES = "jffs2 tar.gz " 
 
 # Set TMPDIR instead of defaulting it to $pwd/tmp 
 TMPDIR = "/usr/src/OE/${DISTRO}-tmp/" 
 
 # Make use of my SMP box 
 PARALLEL_MAKE="-j2" 
 BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "2" 
 
 # Set the Distro 
 DISTRO = "chinook-compat" 
 MACHINE = "nokia800" 
 ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION=0
 
 PREFERRED_VERSION_navit="svn"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_avahi="0.6.23"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_udev="124"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_gpsd="2.30"
 INHERIT += "insane"
 QA_LOG=1

navit_svn.bb[edit]

org.openembedded.dev/packages/navit/navit_svn.bb:

 require navit.inc
 
 PV = "0.1.0+svn${SRCREV}"
 PR = "r1"
 
 DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "10"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/navit"
 
 SRC_URI = "svn://anonymous@navit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/navit/trunk;module=navit;proto=https \
 	  file://configurein3.patch;patch=1 \
 	  file://gpsbtlib.patch;patch=1"
 
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF = " -I m4"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-binding-python --disable-gui-sdl --disable-samplemap --enable-avoid-float --enable-avoid-unaligned --enable-gui-gtk --disable-postgresql \
 --disable-graphics-sdl --enable-svg2png-scaling-flag=32,48 --enable-svg2png-scaling-nav=8,16,32,48 --with-svg2png-use-rsvg-convert"
 
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ libglade libosso libhildon libgpsbt libgpsmgr"

configurein3.patch[edit]

Forcing the GPSBT stuff in configure.in with org.openembedded.dev/packages/navit/files/configurein3.patch:

 --- navit/configure.in	2009-03-04 16:20:40.000000000 +0100
 +++ navit/configure.in	2009-03-04 16:21:07.000000000 +0100
 @@ -105,7 +105,9 @@
  		AC_SUBST(GPSBT_CFLAGS)
  		AC_SUBST(GPSBT_LIBS)
  		], [
 -		AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
 +		AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GPSBT, 1, [Have the gpsbt library])
 +		AC_SUBST(GPSBT_CFLAGS)
 +		AC_SUBST(GPSBT_LIBS)
  	])
  	if test x"${enable_hildon}" = xyes ; then
  		AC_DEFINE(USE_HILDON, 1, [Build with maemo/hildon support])

This patch is necessary because during the configure stage libgpsbt isn't detected for some reason.

gpsbtlib.patch[edit]

We patch using org.openembedded.dev/packages/navit/files/gpsbtlib.patch:

 --- navit/navit/vehicle/gpsd/Makefile.am        2009-02-26 15:00:22.000000000 +0100
 +++ navit/navit/vehicle/gpsd/Makefile.am        2009-03-06 17:00:22.000000000 +0100
 @@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
  AM_CPPFLAGS = @NAVIT_CFLAGS@ @GPSBT_CFLAGS@ -I$(top_srcdir)/navit -DMODULE=vehicle_gpsd
  modulevehicle_LTLIBRARIES = libvehicle_gpsd.la
  libvehicle_gpsd_la_SOURCES = vehicle_gpsd.c
 -libvehicle_gpsd_la_LIBADD = @GPSD_LIBS@ @GPSBT_LIBS@
 +libvehicle_gpsd_la_LIBADD = @GPSD_LIBS@ -lgpsbt -lgpsmgr
  libvehicle_gpsd_la_LDFLAGS = -module

This patch is necessary because during the configure stage libgpsbt isn't detected for some reason.