INSTALL and buildprep
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Feb 24 05:17:04 UTC 2017
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
>esr at thyrsus.com said:
>> Right now we have one action (pull all dependencies from the platform's
>> package manager) and no switches. What switches and actions need to be
>> added?
>
>show about to be installed files
Well, that's a problem - because that set can vary depending on what
switches you specify at waf configure time, which is a later stage.
I think you'd best scratch this one and resign yoursef to doing installs
into scratch directories to see that list.
>without tools, tools only
>run only
Is this meant to be a list of configurations you want supported?
Without tools is presumably ntpd only.
Does 'tools' include ntpviz?
>print stuff in a human friendly format
> needed to check the database
> needed for new OSes/Distros
Print what stuff?
> > tag required packages with the feature that requires them
>
> Or maybe only tell me about the packages needed for a specific configuration.
That is doable.
> There is a chicken/egg problem with waf. It won't configure unless the
> header files and libraries are available.
>
> There is also the cross build area. Tell me what I need to build for a
> specified environment.
Yeah, that I have no idea how to tackle. The problem is that we don't
know the target environment will be using the same package manager
as the build environment.
> Does buildbot have a crossbuild case? Say building for a Raspberry Pi on an
> Intel platform.
Not that I know of. But none of our expert buildbot wranglers is me.
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