On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:56:38PM +0100, Juan Jose Pablos wrote: > > > > I did look at buildroot, and this is what I have found so far. > > > > What about sing a virtual machine' > some users on this list suggested to use Virtualbox.
>From the problems that I've seen on the list, the main issues seem to be >related to the tool-chain and that the build system interacts with the host system that everything is being built on. Currently, some things are downloaded and built while other parts are used from what happens to be on the build system. If all of the exact host requirements are met, from what I hear it just works. However, if your libraries mismatch, etc. it doesn't work. (That is probably why there were reports of things working just fine on an etch system, but not once it was upgraded to lenny.) Having using a virtual machine is one way to isolate the build system for unattended from the host system that is being used. However, you then need to provide the entire tool chain. One solution would be to build a script that would construct a virtual system based on something like Debian. Then you could have a known system for the rest of the stuff to work in. Another potential solution is to take some of the information from www.linuxfromscratch.org and buildroot.uclibc.org and fix the current scripts to better isolate the build from the host system. > I am pretty new to the virtual stuff, but I am happy to create a virtual > image that can be downloaded and used in several platforms. The advantage of the virtual image route is that it can be used on multiple platforms, not necessarily just Linux. However, there are already others that provide this sort of thing. Since we don't actually run anything in this system once unattended is built, it might not be necessary. My gut feeling at this moment is that the basic idea of the build script that is currently used is the correct way to go. However, some changes to fix the "tool-chain problem" are necessary. How to fix it has been solved by buildroot and linuxfromscratch. If someone wants to build on Windows, they could use one of the available virtual linux machines and then just build the script like anyone else. Allan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
