On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:02 -0800, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > > > Well, I think changing to an approach like building a proto area and > > build the packages in that area (like SFWNV for example and yes, I do > > compile too much from source and yes I have a life :P) would take a > > long time to establish and/or migrate too.. but it would be ideal > > yeah! > > It doesn't sound like a very challenging problem. pkgtool provides > build-only and install-pkgs commands, so some internal logic already > exists to separate these phases.
It's more complicated than that. Five phases are separated: - set up the source tree - build - install - package - clean up The real issue is satisfying dependencies from a proto area and making sure that we never pick up those dependencies from the root. In SFW, there are all sorts of hacks to make this work and there is still no guarantee that your build only uses headers/libs from the proto area. Laca
