Re: [MiNT] binutils-2.13.2.1-2.m68kmint.rpm

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:06 -0500, Evan Langlois wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:01 -0400, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> > We need to rebuild all of sparemint to get rid of that old mintlib bug
> > too.  I should try to establish a build script for that.  Maybe I can
> > find something out there that Redhat people use.
> 
> Wasnt there some way to get portage to build RPMs?   I know the
> cross-compiler stuff is pretty new though.  You may want to look at
> OpenEmbedded and see if their build system can be utilized since they
> support cross-compilers very well and I hear the build system is very
> robust (they say its better than Gentoo's, and I think they may be
> right).
> 
> Hmm .. I wonder if I have the partition space to set up an OpenEmbedded
> build system.

You need a ton of space.. It's like 10 gigs or something.  I did an
openembedded build for my zaurus but didn't like how buggy it was.  It's
better than gentoo's for sure, but at the same time it would effectively
force us off our current rpm path and onto a .bb (for bitbake builds)
and .deb path.  The zaurus packages are basically debian packages.

If we evolved a flexible cross building system, we could really leverage
that and do crazy stuff like rebuilding all of sparemint daily when
necessary.  Lets see those static libs screw us then!  Yeah, then only
the bandwidth bill would hurt us ;)  (I'm kidding btw)

Thanks,
Mark


Thanks,
Mark