[Linaro-dev] linaro build system (was Re: Availability of hardware for Linaro development?)

[Loïc Minier]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010, JD Zheng wrote:
> So my question is what will be the default build system, which, I guess, is
> part of deliveries? Since linaro is not a distribution, will it be
> dist-agnostic? (Don't get me wrong as I am a Debian/Ubuntu fan :-) ).

 This is a hard question, as it's still evolving; we currently consider
 two different buildables: software (packages) and images.  For image
 building, we're currently trying live-helper, it seems flexible enough
 to cover a lot of use cases.  For package builds, we're looking at
 replacing native builds with some cross-compilers backed solutions
 (e.g. like scratchbox does), and we're also trying to support
 cross-compilation, but that wont scale to thousands of packages for
 sure.

 Basically, we need more time to try out/develop the bits we're
 currently thinking of, the picture is not complete yet.  In the mean
 time, we're doing native builds.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier