Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:36:19PM +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > > >> Absolutely agree on this. Having the ability for all distributions to pull >> from >> the same repository with a different set of recipes seems like the most ideal >> way to share our work. I'd very much advocate for this approach, and >> certainly >> where I saw Indiana heading to along with the distro constructor work. >> > > A consequence of this approach is that what gets built can't depend on > *anything* about the build system, and the tools *must* completely > cleanse the environment. Otherwise two people can pull the same > snapshot from a magic repository but build very different (and > incompatible) binaries. This is why we've been trying to sell you JDS > folk on the proto area and self-contained makefiles. Sadly, even ON > doesn't quite get it right - it uses the non-ON components on the > build machine. > Lets just straighten out a slight misconception here. The build environment which JDS uses *can* be configured to have a proto area during a build. I have built X-windows in the past using this method, and some components of JDS are built this way. I would have to say though that is only slightly less ugly than a makefile mess :)
Doug
