I'm packaging Chrome for Gentoo Linux, and one of the things I'd like to do is make v8 a separate package (other open source software projects want to use it too!).
Fortunately v8 supports a shared library build on Linux, so I have managed to create an experimental dev-lang/v8 ebuild for it: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/v8/v8-2.2.24.ebuild?revision=1.3&view=markup Now I'm trying to build chrome against that shared library. Could you give me some tips what should I watch out for? Ideally I'd like to remove everything from chrome's src/v8 except the gyp file, and only use the files from the system package. Now some Linux distributions have successfully done this (Fedora), but it seems they patch files in a way that hardcodes a shared build, and I think it's still possible they use some bundled files. That's why I'm asking you for some help and opinions before I get to hacking. What do you think? -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
