On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Colin Guthrie <gm...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Umut Tezduyar Lindskog at 13/05/14 18:37 did gyre and > gimble: >> >> >> On Wednesday, May 7, 2014, Colin Guthrie <gm...@colin.guthr.ie >> <mailto:gm...@colin.guthr.ie>> wrote: >> >> 'Twas brillig, and Umut Tezduyar Lindskog at 04/03/14 12:44 did gyre and >> gimble: >> >> Does that actually matter much? This ln usage is at build time, >> not install time, >> >> and those stable versions aren't going to upgrade to a current >> systemd, >> >> because avoiding non-minimal upgrades is the whole point of >> stable distro >> >> releases. >> > >> > As you have stated, it matters for build time and we have build >> machines not running the latest and greatest SW. I wouldn't be >> surprised if we are not alone. >> >> Yeah, some of our build nodes are actually pretty old too, but that >> shouldn't matter really as the building happens inside a chroot with the >> latest packages, which includes latest ln. >> >> Do you really build on an older node against older libs with older ln >> etc? I would have thought you'd also have some kind of chroot on these >> nodes when building too no? >> >> >> No. We just have virtual machines with Debian Wheezy to do the build. > > > Forgive my ignorance, but I'm curious as to how that works now :)
No worries. > > So the build runs on an older distro, but it's built *for* newer > versions of the distro (I don't recall all the Debian names, so I'd have > to look up exactly how old Wheezy is...) - is that correct? We are cross compiling for our own distro. Our build machines which execute the programs to do the build are Debian stable. Umut > > Assuming that's right, how do you deal with linking against older system > libraries etc when building the package? If you do not install all the > new deps (and buildchain) in a chroot, how are they installed and made > available to the compiler? Are they just installed somehow relocated and > passed in as compile time options (i.e. overriding the pkgconfig path etc.) > > Thanks! > > Col > > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ > Open Source: > Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ > PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ > Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
