On May 26 2016 5:41 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:43:37PM -0600, EBo wrote: >> Jeff, >> >> This looks very interesting! Do you have any extended instructions >> on >> this, or is this all we have? > > There's better documentation on the internet about using > qemu-debootstrap and schroot than I could write. Once inside the > chroot, building linuxcnc is just like building it in a regular > Debian > installation, because it is a regular debian installation.
Fair enough. I started spelunking into that (and noted that KDE just had a major update and Gentoo wants me to switch to plasma... rebuilding into the wee hours...) >> Also, since you are targeting jessie-armhf, is this a RPi hardware >> target? > > I don't have any specific needs for ARM hardware. I like to know we > build and run on ARM because being portable to different > architectures is > a good indicator of software quality, and I like to know that when > someone who does have ARM hardware needs comes along, the base system > will work right for them to write (and hopefully contribute) hardware > drivers. > > Plus I just wanted to try out this kind of emulated environment, and > once I learned about the major caveat that prevents running our > testsuite, I did want to make sure that got noted somewhere. The > mailing list seemed like the easiest way to do that. Agree to all. Will look into it as well. I am concerned that since the test suite is not running that the major-caveat == no-worky in that env... Thanks for reaching out. I had not heard about schroot before. Nice. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
