Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> The package generation step should be kept sufficiently separate,
> as it is today, to easily plug-in other package mechanisms.
I'm planning on removing the SVR4 package definitions and the script
to build them from our gate when we do the move, and am considering
having a 'ips-package' target in the Makefiles to generate the ips
packages from the Makefiles instead of a separate script to simplify
things from the current gate build, but am still planning on having
everything installed to a proto area from which you can generate
packages in any format you see fit, since that's still needed to
bootstrap the later phases of the build with the headers and libraries
built in the earlier phases.
(Despite certain people's encouragement, I'm not planning on throwing
the entire build system away and switching to spec files for instance.
I do have limits for how many moving parts I'm willing to try changing
at once in the engine while the bus is still driving down the highway.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
