I've mentioned Chicory (not always by that name) in many presentations in recent years. A couple months ago, for a presentation workshop that I attended, I cooked up a deck specifically discussing Chicory. So ... there's some material to draw on. I'll upload that deck to the Chicory project on GitHub.
Be aware that Chicory works great on USS on z/OS too. The sole requirement is sym-links. One can then drive Chicory-managed programs and packages from good ole JCL. The downside to doing Chicory on USS is that we have to think carefully about A/E issues. But I won't belabor that; it's not a stow shopper. So, yes!, of general use to the mainframe community. (Not exclusively Linux.) If you'd like, I can present it to OMP steering or some similar group so y'all will know more about it. -- R; <>< On 3/31/20 9:12 AM, John Mertic wrote: > This is really cool stuff - nice work Rick! If you want to do a writeup for > the OMP blog -we'd be happy to post ti! > > There's an Ambitus project at OMP which might be an interesting place to > help drive some of this work; the team working on things like build > environment, upstreaming any code support, and generally ensuring s390x > support is maintained in a sustainable way. > > Let me know what you think... > > Thanks, > > John > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:46 AM Rick Troth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What did y'all do over this weekend while you were locked up? >> Geeky me noticed a half dozen packages in the Chicory collection which >> needed update. >> >> They needed update ... what "update" means for Chicory is to cobble-up a >> new makefile for each package, usually just bumping the release number >> from the previous makefile, and then driving a build for each platform >> of interest. These are just some packages for which there is a newer >> release of the source. >> >> Platform of interest ... for me that's always S390, but also I386 and ARM. >> >> What packages? I mentioned BINUTILS a few days ago. There are also the >> latest release of Python 3 and the final release of Python 2. But also >> TAR, TCSH, TEXINFO, WGET, and ZSH. (SUDO was on the list, but it works >> better in the core OS, not supplemental via Chicory.) The list looks >> like ... >> >> tar-1.32 >> tcsh-6.22.02 >> texinfo-6.7 >> wget-1.20.3 >> zsh-5.8 >> python-3.8.2 >> python-2.7.17 >> binutils-2.34 >> >> >> The first five are what I worked on this weekend. >> Chicory is great! Hardly any time at all to change a prior "wrapper >> makefile" for the new release. Wrapper makefile sits above the package >> source and drives Biggest time sink is making the build behave. (My >> build farm is very much a hobby thing, so it's scattered.) >> >> I build them statically when possible. If something goes wrong with the >> static build, the build can be re-driven using dynamic linkage. (Dynamic >> has advantages, but drives co-reqs, sometimes broadly.) Once they're >> built, they can be installed easily using the crude Chicory scripts. (A >> collection of shell scripts which will only improve as they get used.) >> And one can always cook the recipe manually. >> >> *rsync://chic.casita.net/opt/*/package/*/Linux-s390x/* >> >> >> As I write this note, I see that some of the packages still lack S390X. >> Sorry about that. Will go back and re-try them. >> >> -- R; <>< >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
