On 2/26/14 13:53 , EBo wrote: > I was pinging one of the official Gentoo dev's concerning a couple of > tools I use and a recent new release... Long story short, we started a > discussion on setting up formal ebuilds for LinuxCNC again, supporting > the sys-kernel/rt-sources. Is there a place in the repository to set up > an experimental distro intended for embedded controllers? If so, what > is the preferred location, etc.
That's cool. I know next to nothing about gentoo, what's involved in setting up an ebuild? There is a *lot* of build & packaging infrastructure in LinuxCNC, and all of it currently assumes we're building debs. I think John Morris has worked on rpm support, but i don't know what the state of that is. I think the way to add Gentoo support would be to start a feature branch (off master), and add the ebuild stuff there. Whatever control files & build scripts you need would live next to the (untouched) deb-building infrastructure in that branch. Beware that for interesting (ie, non-sim) builds, you'll need to provide realtime kernels. Maybe Gentoo already has this, i dont know. Debian (and Ubuntu) did not, and a lot of hassle & effort goes into providing realtime kernel packages for linuxcnc to build against. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
