Seb, Am 26.02.2014 um 23:04 schrieb Sebastian Kuzminsky <[email protected]>:
> 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, you might have overlooked the already existing RT-PREEMPT kernels in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=image-rt This was a key point of the unified-build exercise: an RT-PREEMPT UB build of linuxCNC is Debian-compatible as far as realtime kernels from the stock Debian package stream for i386/amd64 go - Michael > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
