Re: [MiNT] Sparemint Rebuild Progress

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

On 1/10/10 1:50 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> The most important thing is to be able to rebuild the whole SpareMiNT 
> automatically. For example, when there is a new version of GCC or the 
> MiNTLib.
> Mark, can you currently rebuild everything (the working packages) 
> without human assistance ?
I have no mechanism in place, but I plan to create a simple c++ program 
that will autobuild all of sparemint.  The way it will work is to assume 
that "base" is installed.  It will first build mintlib, then it will 
rebuild a couple base packages like ncurses, readline, gettext, and then 
it will rebuild all the rest of the base packages, installing their 
replacements one by one as built.  Then it will begin querying the 
remaining src.rpms and build a dependency tree and start building and 
installing the rest in the proper order.  For instance.  Say you want to 
build a which depends on b, c and ncurses.  It will know that ncurses is 
installed, it will build b and c (and anything that b and c depends on 
and install them), install b and c, then build a, and then after no 
other packages that depend on b and c need built, b and c will be 
removed.  It's fairly complex conceptually but it won't be a lot of 
code.  Right now though, I need to fix all of sparemint to get it to 
build on it's own and to correct dependencies specified in the rpm specs.

Thanks,
Mark