If you guys can get auto-building working on linux, I'd be tempted to setup
a 12-core Mac pro to create daily builds of the entire gnustep APIs and
related applications (that I can get my hands on). I'm about to acquire one
of those towers cheaply.


On 9 August 2013 18:21, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9 Aug 2013, at 03:00, Austin Clow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Here: http://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html
> > FreeBSD
> > cd /usr/ports/devel/gnustep
> > make install clean
>
> I completely agree that this should work.  I am currently in the process
> of updating the GNUstep ports in FreeBSD.  I've got updates to the core
> libraries done and I'm making clang 3.3, libobjc2, and the non-fragile ABI
> hard dependencies for everything.  I still, however, need to check that all
> of the ports that use the core libraries still compile after the switch and
> either update them or cull them from the ports tree.
>
> In the next few weeks, the new package building infrastructure for FreeBSD
> should be online, and then we'll be pushing out new package sets every 2
> weeks[1], so updates should be relatively painless and users will just be
> able to do pkg update to get them.
>
> David
>
> [1] It really amazes me how much faster computers have become in the last
> decade.  We're now building the entire ports collection (around 25K
> packages) on a single machine, and it takes about a day per architecture
> (we'll probably end up with one build machine per arch).  When the old
> build infrastructure was designed, it was a complex distributed system that
> did builds across a whole rack of machines and collected the results.
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