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,