On Thursday 09 August 2007 17:43:25 Ron Senykoff wrote: > Hi I'm the maintainer of QBox (albeit somewhat old I want to get this going > some more due to interest). > > One challenge for me has been the whole build environment setup. I resorted > to just releasing images of the CF card, but would really like to get > completely setup. I'm not that new to Linux or anything, but was wondering > if anyone has thought about creating either a VMWare or Xen image for LEAF > development. It certainly would be a huge help for anyone trying to just > get started, and would really help in troubleshooting the dev environment. > > I'm willing to try and build the image myself, and am familiar with VMWare > on Linux. I may just need some help along the way. ;) You all think it > would be helpful? >
Ron; I've indeed thought about such an image in the last days and I agree, it will be a help for beginners or just if one updates the local WS, which raises problems from time to time. As a testcase for Adam's pb's I started with debian-40r0-i386-netinst.iso and installed Debian 4.0 within virtualbox (http://virtualbox.org) - this VM solution can be installed on Debian and Ubuntu with apt and provides net access out of the box - all you need and too easy to get it running to believe. I have had to add after installation: gcc and then gcc-3.3 make patch bzip2 libconfig-general-perl cvs maybe some more I'm not aware of yet (asm for e3 and such corner cases). I was able to run checkout builtool and to build a buildenv (and of course bulding some packages to test as well) At that stage you may try to shrink the virtual debian by removing the unnecessary stuff - we don't need a lot of the default installation just to have a build environment. I think it's worth the effort, to get a working buildenv in a short time - and it may be easier to keep the VM stable than to fix all the pb's new and various Linux distro's may introduce for buildtool. Yes, I'm willing to help, to get something nice done. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
