On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:03:30PM -0800, Jyri Virkki wrote: > Brian Smith wrote: > > > > Your concern is that people will build packages with missing components if > > the header files are missing. In the modern world, that doesn't happen. > > Build-time configuration and end-users users building their own custom > > binaries for their machines is an outdated model. > > That is not universally true. In the Web Stack project we know of much > interest in users creating their own custom builds. Build-time > configuration is the norm for most of these components and there is a > nearly unbounded set of combinations of config * components. While we > (Web Stack project) strive to pick a set of build-time configurations > most broadly useful, there can only be one set of binaries in the > official package so there is no pleasing everyone. Many users end up > wanting to build their own with local tweaks. > > Anything OpenSolaris tools (whether pkg directly or a helper tool > isn't important) can do to make this as easy as possible is a big win.
Interesting. So it'd be useful to have a tool for building, say, SQLite3 with specific ./configure options, including a non-conflicting --prefix, and a non-conflicting pkg name or instance (oh, another SVR4 packaging concept, instances)? We'll keep that in mind! Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
