Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >>> Yes I was enquiring about objections from others >>> here. >>> If you have objections you mention it, which you >>> have done >>> anyway. So what is the problem with that ? >>> I am building FOX while having only FOX itself on >>> the build >>> machine. All Nevada Xwindows packages were removed. >>> >> >> >> I didn't remove them. >> I only renamed /usr/openwin to foo and made /usr/openwin a symlink >> pointing to /usr/X11. >> Plus I adjusted the symlinks in /usr/lib/. >> What's the big deal with getting it self-hosted? A few lib.so.N >> symlinks, adding missing libs to the system, proper build order. >> > > Since most OpenSolaris distros will only have FOX, one > should be able to build the repository with only FOX > installed.
Yeah, that's obvious. However, what I meant was, that it is not hard to achieve this. I'm almost at that level, based on cleaned up versions your Makefile additions (and especially pkgdefs) you had posted in May. Merged together with Alan20070901 and Martin20070930. > >> [...] >> That's right. And is compatible with my model. I only have a higher >> threshold value before I am willing to make the *initial* commit. >> That's the only difference. >> BTW, when did you last push something into FOX? >> > > I did not yet since I was tied up too much with work. Working > on FOX is not my full day job. But then I have posted source > earlier and posted diffs as well. No problem. In my case it is :-) > >> >> >>> Have you posted your diffs at all ? >>> >> >> You obviously never visited my website: >> http://www.martux.org/xorg/OLD/20070503__7.2.0/bin_pkgadd_packages/sparc-probe.patch >> >> >> http://www.martux.org/xorg/OLD/20070503__7.2.0/src/ >> >> - [DIR] 0__20070227/ 03-May-2007 15:54 - [DIR] >> 1__20070410/ 03-May-2007 15:54 - [DIR] >> 2__20070430moinakg__..> 03-May-2007 15:54 - [DIR] >> 3__20070430moinakg__..> 03-May-2007 15:54 - >> So then you also never tested my binary packages on SPARC? >> Only 3 IP addresses have downloaded the FOX1.0-SPARC tarball over the >> last 3 days ... :-( >> So you don't happen to be one of those 3 persons? >> > > No time to do testing on SPARC for me now. I am only looking > at getting things to work on x86. As mentioned before, it is *not* SPARC-only. You can build it on x64/x86 just as easily. > >> [...] >> >> Sure, I had written about this. >> At first I had considered to integrate some basic logic into the make >> framework to apply patches depending on which ISA the build is run >> on/for. But then I thought about it: Mr. Coopersmith would certainly >> have done so, if he had wanted to, but he didn't. Probably for a good >> reason: Let's apply any and every patch, whether on SPARC or on x86, >> but lets keep the patches platform-clean by means of the conditional >> preprocessor directives. That's why my SPARC-patches do not interfere >> with x86. >> > > That's good. If you notice all I have done is to add modules > to the build framework. Not much of source code change > at all. Right. > >> [...] >> >>> Please post your >>> diffs first. I can hold back on merging my apps >>> stuff but I do not >>> understand what big problems it will cause. >>> >> >> >> It may produce many HUNKS (if mercurial works like diff/patch, no idea). >> And one has to fix them one after another. >> Plus, I have really done something for making the pkgdefs look >> better, while there is still much work required. >> Just automatically merging stuff would break this, depending on how >> much you have extended yours (compared to the automatically generated >> ones from May). >> >> So okay. >> I won't come into your way. >> I won't sync in my stuff, if that's not wanted by Indiana. >> > > It is most certainly wanted, but I want to first build and > test your updated Xserver on x86. It does work, of course. > > But please merge in stuff like open-src/apps. Do you have > changes in apps ? The mentioned changes, improvements and additions. Builds on SPARC and on x86. Much improved pkgadd-prototype files, updated pkginfo and all that, just as mentioned before. Regards, Martin > > Regards, > Moinak. >
