Hi Paweł, I would recommend looking at how debian is doing it: http://packages.debian.org/sid/chromium-browser
-Anders On Aug 11, 11:03 pm, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/v... > > 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
