On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:40:14AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > Is there some kind of 'make world' infrastructure in GNU/Hurd? I'd like > to be able to update (at least) hurd/, glibc/, gnumach/, mig/ and grub/ > sources directly from subversions.gnu.org and just call 'make world' to > get everyting recompiled. (a la FreeBSD). The same for single parts too > and of course for selected debian sources as well. > > It would be a nice feature that may not be that hard to set up but that > is extremely practical.
IIRC, that's supposed to be possible somehow with autoconf. I know that if "configure" scripts are chained together, they will share information. If there's no reply here in a while, I'll ask elsewhere. (Thomas and Roland have certainly been around long enough to know if such an idea ever became real) -- "It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all." - Douglas Adams
