System building: manually with Scratchbox

• Scratchbox benefits

• • Chrooted environment: you are still on the host, but you only see the target files.
  • Transparent cross-compiling: the cross-compiler looks like a native one.
  • Transparent execution: either through remote execution on the target. Or through CPU code emulation (qemu)

• Drawbacks

• • No infrastructure for build reproduction
  • Limited number of host tools available