Hi,
With the previous serie, we could build the C/C++ toolchain on Trisquel 9. This serie fixes the Java toolchain build so with both patchsets, we can now build the Replicant 6 toolchain with the usual command (./vendor/replicant/build-toolchain). I've not yet managed to complete a Replicant 6 build yet with Trisquel 9, so it might be a good idea to also test these patches on Debian stretch as well. There is still some compilation failures to solve when building Replicant 6.0 on Trisquel 9. For instance there is a compilation error due to with platform/external/libcxx not finding xlocale.h that I've already fixed locally, and I've also encountred some python errors, so once I've managed to fix them I'll also send a new patchset. The idea here is to enable to build Replicant 6.0 under at least one distribution that follows the Free System Distribution Guidelines (FSDG)[1]. This is required by the these guidelines. In addition, many people wanting to work on Replicant already use distributions that follow such guidelines, and there is even some work done (by me and others) to enable to easily install an FSDG distribution from another one[2]. For instance I use Parabola on the computer that is used to build Replicant, but I can very easily create a Trisquel 9 chroot from it as the debootstrap pakcage in Parabola has the scripts for Trisquel 9. Installing Debian for instance is way more complicated as the Debian script has been removed from the Parabola debootstrap as Debian is not FSDG compliant[3], and we don't want to force people to use distributions that are not FSDG compliant anyway. Some of the distributions or distribution versions that follow these guidelies[4] are also not packaged in the upstream debootstrap, but that could be easily fixed by sending patches to the upstream debootstrap for adding support for them. References: ----------- [1]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html [2]https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Software/research/CrossDistroBootstrap [3]https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Debian [4]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html#for-pc How to see the patches in a web or shell interface: --------------------------------------------------- In addition to the patch that will follow in a response to this mail, here's the URLs to the see the patches in a web interface: https://git.replicant.us/contrib/GNUtoo/vendor_replicant/commit/?id=bfe859b89594264b59bdceb3e7cc3b724e68d8f2 https://git.replicant.us/contrib/GNUtoo/toolchain_jack/commit/?id=178652c980bc6b0372511a449229cb81e19790bb And here's how to get them in a git repository: git clone https://git.replicant.us/GNUtoo/vendor_replicant cd vendor_replicant git show bfe859b89594264b59bdceb3e7cc3b724e68d8f2 git show 200b4b0d9c782fe1a0930f3384f675bed06d6c09 And for the toolchain_jack patch: git clone https://git.replicant.us/GNUtoo/toolchain_jack cd toolchain_jack git show 178652c980bc6b0372511a449229cb81e19790bb Denis. _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
