At 11:43 PM 8/25/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>OK for what it's worth, once there is a source ball release it is pretty
>easy for me to make Red Hat 7.1 binaries of both the GTK and gnome builds.
>
>This is not such a big imposition for me. I have scripts which do a large
>fraction of the work.
Excellent. It might even be worth upgrading our existing build system to
capture more of the work currently done by those scripts.
The original intent of the "make distribution" target was that you could
take pristine tarballs of the abi and peer modules, do something almost as
simple as:
(set some environment variables)
cd my/path/to/abi
make distribution
and have a releasable distribution spit out. I know that Jeff did the work
to allow the same source tree to create parallel outputs for debug vs.
release targets, as well as various platform targets. However, at the time
the GNOME vs. GTK distinction didn't exist, so more work would be needed to
make that work as smoothly.
If anyone's interested in doing the legwork on this -- other than Martin,
that is, his time is better spent coding -- I'd be happy to help you find
your way around the current diving make system, and I suspect we could also
find you some autoconf wizards, if needed.
Paul,
wearing his recruiting hat
