On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:45:11PM +0200, Pierre Bourgin wrote: > I agree with the difficulty to build Unattended. Personaly, being able to > build it with CentOS4 costs me a lot of time (nightmare: dosemu building > ...), and my (dirty) CentOS4 hacks are not even enough to build glibc under > RHEL5/CentOS5 :( > > In the other hand, I think that using a full cross-compiling env. is not > necessary:
It seems as if the main problem with building is the contamination between the system we are building and the system we are building it on. If we don't need this, then we could probably get away from compiling most of the stuff that we are now. > it might take time just to configure it correctly, and it > supposes also to maintain it: another layer, that you have to build first, > even before untarring Unattended sources. Configuring buildroot is similar to configuring busybox which we already do. I was thinking that even with this new way, the actual building of Unattended would stay the same. Buildroot would just simplify the actual building process and be called/built like we are currently building busybox. > IMHO, it should be sufficient to define and describe precisely what is the > "official" or reference platform for building Unattended: linux distribution > flavor, exact versions of gcc and glibc of the host system, etc. > Then strongly inform the community about it, and loudly ask to use this one > for anyone that want to build Unattended. This seems almost harder to do. > Then we should provide this reference host build environment as an image of > a virtual host, aka Virtual Appliance. > As tiny as possible, such an image should make easier its adoption by the > community. > People will then keep their focus on enchancing Unattended instead of > loosing time on build nightmares. Building the basic environment is the hardest part of the entire exercise. Most users should not have to build anything to work on the main part of Unattended. 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/Challenge _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
