Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 19:49, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > The buildsystem for sfw is a nightmare:
> >
> > - It only works if the whole set of tools has already been
> > installed in /usr on the compiling system before with exactly
> > the same version as the one that is going to be compiled.
> >
> > This causes that you need an unknown number of iteration to
> > compile and install on the build machine before you are able
> > to compile everything at all.
> >
> > You need at least one additional install/compile cycle before you
> > can be sure that the compile/link results will no longer change.
>
> It sounds like what you want is a completely self contained build
> system, like pkgsrc, which bootstraps itself, requires only a compiler,
> knows how to build things in the correct order, and installs everything
> to a custom destination prefix.
>
> That approach is fine for building 3rd party software, but not for
> maintaining system software which ships to /usr.
It seems that you missunderstand the problem.
The main issue is that the build system linked against /usr instead of linking
against something like: /home/user/proto/usr
> > - It may be that you would need to manually install at least older
> > versions of strategic tools before you may start to compile at all.
> > The programs in question are gmake, bash, gm4, ...
>
> That is not an issue with userland-gate or oi-build. You do have to
> install gmake, bash and a bunch of dependencies, but they're all
> available in the package repo.
It is not a real issue with SchilliX either but for a looking at a
self-contained system it would.
> > - It installs unmodified autoconf results in /usr/include with the
> > effect that you cannot compile depending other software using
> > an older version of the compilers than the one you used to compile
> > sfw.
>
> Can you supply an example? I'm not sure I understand this complaint.
Check e.g. the notes about sfw in:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/AN-0.8
Jörg
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