Lauri T. Aarnio wrote:
On Mar 7, 2009, at 2:32 PM, ext Felipe Contreras wrote:
Some people compile and run stuff from /tmp.
The fame functionality is available in the "emulate" mode when you use
option "-O use-global-tmp". Is there a good reason why that approach
couldn't be used for "simple"?
I think I like the idea that "simple" uses the global by default, with
maybe session specific as an option. Overall I'd like to keep simple to
be the absolute minimum configuration, changing as little from the
normal expected behaviour of the system as possible, while still
providing what I consider as the most valuable features:
1. Allows ./configure && make && make install to work for well behaved
software
2. Allows reliably running a specific toolchain against a specific
target rootfs, without having to worry about the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS of
the sw being built.
Especially 1. is of course highly subjective, I want the simple autoconf
tests to work, but I don't particularly care if openoffice fails to
build. I want the xorg software components to build (they are reasonably
sensible), but I might not lose any sleep over some KDE component failing.
I totally appreciate what Maemo SDK+ is building, but I would draw the
line much earlier, and start pushing for fixing the build systems
instead of finding more and more esoteric ways to work around them.
I know why Maemo SDK+ is going the long way, so don't take this as
anything other than my humble opinion :)
/lauri
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