Luca wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >> Luca wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Some days ago I found and started using T2 Open System Development >>> Environment scripts (http://www.t2-project.org) to build a system and >>> Live/Installation CDs. >>> >>> >> According to the information on that site, the developers did almost >> the impossible: crosscompiled Xorg. So the approach looks promising. >> >>> Now after testing again the system, I'll begin to modify the scripts and >>> then talk again with Rene; after the lfs projects are built using these >>> scripts I'll put them into tests to see and check the results, failures >>> etc... and then if he said that there are no problems, if someone is >>> interested I could post the original and modified tarball. >>> >>> >> Do I understand correctly that, once the scripts are created, they >> have to be manually maintained and updated, so that changes that >> happen in the books are propagated to the scripts? >> >>> The idea was to modify scripts to build the stable or svn/development >>> versions of the books; something like ALFS but with the opportunity to >>> create even CDs/DVD Live and Installation images. >>> >>> >> This also has the value of build-testing BLFS against CLFS and >> identifying problem spots. So go ahead, we'll see the results. >> >> If you want to get notes on i18n, RW support, and release goals of the >> past CD, mail me privately. >> >> > Hi Alexander, > > yes, you understood correctly, the scripts need to be maintained and > updated by hand, but I'll try to fix this (to update the original > T2-<version> it's possible to add a cron job that download the sources > from svn). Actually I began to modify the scripts to take care of LFS > (I'll try to add additional configuration options too), but I don't know > exactly when I'll put on fire the modified scripts (it takes a lot of > work and until now I modified everything about system and configuration > - but only for x86 for now to test - and autoconf, automake, bash, > berkeley-db, binutils, bison, bzip2 and coreutils files from > LFS-SVN-20061008 book. > Since the first stages are cross-compiled I'll take a look to see how to > patch packages only for that stages, and not in the final/native system > (the way CLFS does with the posix compliance patches). > I think that the result should be a mix of CLFS and LFS, not exactly the > pure standalone books... > > Thanks, if I need something related I'll email directly to you, however > I'll post from time to time on the list the work done. > > Not sure, but from what I read, if I understood correctly, it should be > possible to create a DVD image too with these scripts. > > Luca > I put the scripts on fire although for now they build only bare lfs system x86 version, just began stage 5 of compilation, the first 4 stages built without problems but I'll wait all the remaing stages to begin to trace out all logs (until now 40MB of log files).
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