On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 08:38 +0100, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote: > here's two sides to the reason why there's no make menuconfig for > Solaris > > 1) Currently the build is this big nasty WOS.. So you're talking > about > significantly changing a part of that in order to introduce a curses > based interface. I've looked at, changed and completely torn apart > the > ON build system. (In fact it's sorry to say, but I could probably > rewrite Makefile.master from scratch and don't need bldenv anymore.) > > 2) If you're really interested and evening will to change the ON > build > system you're going to fight changing 20 years of habits. I mean > honestly ask any @Sun or ON dev how much they don't like changes to > the > build system. It's fragile to the point where even version bumping a > compiler will give headaches. > > In reference to [1] I didn't read the whole thread, but I've been > quietly working on this for the past 2 months. It has some peer > review > and most people that I've talked with about it seem very supportive. > (I'm aware I'm probably duplicating some work since I've been told > others are making spec files for ON.) > > Question about your original post.... Do you need to selectively > compile > different parts or selectively package? One can potentially speed up > the > build cycle where the other is designed to possibly reduce space.. > (or > maybe you need both?) Feel free to directly email. > > Cheers!
Ok, it is not necessary menuconfig and curses but why not to use GENERIC file like in FreeBSD? My main interest consists in reduction of the size of a kernel for faster booting. Sooner or later somebody will be engaged in development Solaris for embedded devices. Why not to accelerate this way.. -- Best regards, Alexander R. Eremin -- MilaX minimal Live Distribution developer Software engineer and system admin http://www.milax.org
