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
> 
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