how can I run multiple rockboxes?

[simi72]

Hi,
I need to install 2 different rockboxes. Is there a way to tell rockbox.iaudio to take some other directory than .rockbox as base?
At the moment I keep renaming the 2 folders...
Thanks, Simon

[obo]

The folder is specified via:

firmware/export/config-iaudiox5.h:150:#define BOOTDIR "/.rockbox"
and
apps/settings.h:50:#define ROCKBOX_DIR "/.rockbox"

although I've never heard of anyone changing this - but it maybe possible to ROLO to a build that has a different value?  Grepping through the code there are a few odd places that use hardcoded values (dircache, logf and several plugins).

EDIT - hah, I forgot about all the buildscripts - it'd be a fair amount of work.

[bascule]

Speak to the author of the Gigabeat screen rotation patch - that uses two separate .rockbox folders depending on which orientation is chosen...

[Mad Cow]

Speak to the author of the Gigabeat screen rotation patch - that uses two separate .rockbox folders depending on which orientation is chosen...

That one works with a modified bootloader. There are two rockbox folders, .rockbox and .rockbox_1. Inside each is a full build containing rockbox.gigabeat or rockbox.gigabeat_1. The bootlaoder loads different builds depending on button presses. I'm not sure how he modifies the other parts of the source, but you could look through his patch and try to find out. http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6688?histring=gigabeat%20rotate