Well, I'm deep enough in setting up a cross compiling environment already that I decided to keep going with it, but thanks for reminding me about the Maemo SDK. I'll be using that if this doesn't work... Which, well, it very well may not. I deviated from the tutorial for the much newer gcc sources, which, honestly, pretty much threw a fit, complaining about a bunch of missing stuff, which I then fetched from the gcc infrastructure ftp directory, and then all those threw a fit until I figured out how to run 'configure --host=i486-linux', so, well, it's a matter of luck now as to whether or not I fraked stuff up or did it right.

If I had thought of using the Maemo SDK before though, I probably would've done that (though I've had difficulty trying to set it up in a Ubuntu machine a while ago before; but at the same time, that was the automated-scripts-for-installing-scratchbox containing image, and now I am a bit more confident that I could figure out how to set it up directly from the wiki instructions without relying on the automated scripts).

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Well I'll be damned. Maemo 5 SDK installed from the python-based GUI installer without a hitch. (Well, I haven't ran anything yet, but it didn't throw any errors at me, or anything to make me think it didn't work. After the 4 or so hours of just sitting around trying to set up a cross-compilation toolchain the non-automated way, this is a major relief to not have to have something break.)