Inline reply On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working the last couple of days on rebuilding the Debian/Ubuntu > build system and getting rid of WAF. > > I think it got to a state where it's ready to be tested by other users. > > The code can be found at Github [0] under my user "wido". > > The goals I had were: > * Get rid of WAF
GREAT goal IMO! > * Do everything with ANT I think this is potentially ok - more later. > * Get the packages working under Debian as well Another great goal! > Seems it worked and my packages are now building like they are supposed to. > I haven't been able to find issues at the moment, while this will of course > need more testing. > > For cloud-daemonize I've written a separate ANT task which uses contrib-cpp > [1]. For the Debian packages I've made the package "ant-contrib-cpptasks" a > build dependency. cloud-daemonize should go away IIRC - Frank? Edison? Isn't that all deprecated - can't we just purge it all? > > This build code could be shared with the RPM build process as well, so we > might want to move some targets around or make them more generic. > > I think that a great goal for CloudStack 4.0 would be to support: > - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS > - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS > - Debian 6 Squeeze > > The packages will probably work on Ubuntu 11.X as well, but we should > probably target the LTS versions and anything else that works is great? > > I'd like to get some feedback on this build system. > > Thanks! > > Wido So perhaps I misunderstand - but here is what I'd personally like to see: ant build-all compiles everything - as it does now. We add a target something like: ant deploy-rpm or ant deploy-deb This copies the compiled binaries built in build-all to the right locations for those platforms - BUT also allows overriding those settings in a config file or command line option. (this becomes the equivalent of make followed by make install) I am not necessarily opposed to building all of this with ant - it might make life easy for nightly builds or testing - but I also want to make sure that I can still sanely do it by calling rpmbuild or dpkg. Thoughts? --David
