Sebastien Roy wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 06:54 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> Edward Shu wrote: >>> +1. I would like the package for the "community supported hardware" >>> will be self contained. That is, >>> ON tree is not necessary to build the package. >> It would be nice, but we'll need the ON headers at least, I think. > > Logistically speaking, to make this work at all, I would think that your > repository would need to be a child of a snapshot of the ON gate. This > very much seems to me to be a project (rather than a consolidation) that > perpetually synchronizes with ON by regularly pulling and merging from > some snapshot of the ON gate (just like any other ON-based project). > > Copying a collection of header files from the ON gate seems like a poor > man's way of simply doing development in a snapshot of ON itself.
I agree; its possible to have a child project stand alongside ON that does not copy *anything*. In fact, this is how the Emancipation driver-gate works; to build driver-gate you simply need to issue bldenv just as though you were working within ON proper. The Makefiles take care of the rest. Not copying ON bits also gives the project some autonomy - I can imagine that updating the headers every 2 weeks for a new release would be a pretty big PITA. Steve _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
