Yeah, that seems like the way to go. Parsing wouldn't be that hard either,
I imagine.

On Saturday, November 21, 2015, 'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh, I agree. If the target is mass import, it is not practical to rewrite
> all the makefiles.
> At that point, if makefiles are reasonably following the standard, they
> will read env for CC, LD, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, PREFIX, ..., so we can feed
> them the proper values.
> All autoconf/automake based ones (a lot of OSS stuff), are following that
> standard.
> We could feed them, instead of Akaros gcc binaries directly, a wrapper
> script which parses the cmdline and does the clean output.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Kevin Klues <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
>
>> > Overachiever!
>> > Why would you not store the sources?
>>
>> Because I'm picturing some of these packages being actively developed
>> elsewhere (e.g. dorpbear-akaros).
>>
>> > You are describing what is that distributions do (source packages
>> contain the tar.gz of the original source, plus distro patches), but they
>> do store the tar.gz.
>> > Also, what about in-tree apps and libs?
>>
>> We could keep some in there with the nice one-line compiling, but it's
>> not necessarily appropriate for everything.
>>
>> > Moreover, I find it nice that there is a common make machinery, which
>> emits a consistent output while building.
>>
>> I agree. I am the one who wrote it that way :)
>>
>> > If every package implements its own make system, this is lost.
>> > IMHO the build configuration for packages should be declaring, per
>> target:
>> >
>> > 1) Target type (exe, lib, so, ...)
>> > 2) The files to build (with possible "glob" spec which resorts to the
>> actual *.c,*.S,...)
>> > 3) CFLAGS options. Global, with possible per-file override.
>> > 4) LDFLAGS
>> > 5) What to install and where
>>
>> I agree, except if we want to start porting over a wide variety of
>> packages, it's intractable to port all of their makefiles to follow
>> this pattern. Standardizing on a way to get them installed in kfs (or
>> even through a 9p mount point) is important though.
>>
>> > BTW, Busybox is not a very nice example, as even if there is nothing
>> new to build, it does a bunch of things.
>>
>> Sure, but it will always do that unless we change something in the
>> busybox makefile itself (which isn't unreasonable).
>>
>> --
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>> "Akaros" group.
>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
>> email to [email protected]
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','akaros%[email protected]');>.
>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>.
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Akaros" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','akaros%[email protected]');>.
> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>


-- 
~Kevin

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Akaros" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to