I have set up a build environment on the N900 based on the scratchbox rootstrap and used this to build debian packages on the N900 itself.

The build environment is installed onto a 8GB SD card that is formatted in ext3 and is executed in a chroot environment.

I found that Ruby 1.9.1 would not build and run correctly in scratchbox in armel mode and caused the system to hang. Compiling direct on the N900 works great and allows use of compiler flags which are probably not supported by QEMU. The package run fine on the N900 but not within scratchbox .. I guess that QEMU does not emulate the arm-cortex-a8 quite right ??

anyway since I cannot load the package onto maemo-extras I have put it here if anyone would like to try it out.

deb http://repository.realitybites.eu/ fremantle free
deb-src http://repository.realitybites.eu/ fremantle free