Hi, I've been putting some thought into the linuxboot build system. There have been lots of reports of difficulty in consistently building releases because of interactions between the host system and what we are actually trying to do. Some software, glibc in particular, is hard to build and seems to interact with the particular version of gcc being used. Our basic problem is that our tool chain is getting contaminated by the host build system.
There are roughly two parts to Unattended. One part is the necessary basic infrastructure that we have to build in order to have the tools to format the disk and get the intaller started. The second part is the cool part that actually does all of the installation. When we build the first part, what we are doing is basically building an embedded Linux system that we then use to run our installation scripts. This is actually harder to get consistently correct than it seems at first. All we really need is a simple consistent platform and it doesn't really matter what we use to get there. I have an idea of how we can replace this basic infrastructure with something that is actually easier to build. Since we are effectly building an embedded system to run the initial scripts, it seems to me that we should be able to use www.buildroot.org for the actual building of the boot environment. They've already done the hard part of sorting out the build system and tool chain. Also, most of the applications that we need are already part of buildroot and it doesn't seem that it would be too hard to add any other applications that we would need. If that works out, then it should be relatively easy to build new releases or customize those parts for those who need to. So, does anyone think this would be a good idea to try out? Allan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
