Hello everyone,

I've been busy and quiet since my last email; indeed, I had busy times due to
school related things to do (mostly exams). You surely know what it means.. :)

Let's talk about my GSoC project and things I've done since the last time I
gave you information.

I wrote many ebuilds, in order to emerge some specific parts of NetBSD. There
is one eclass, which is used to fetch sources using CVS. This eclass is also
used to specify where sources are downloaded on the system. End-user can
specify a personnal path and a special CVS tag to fetch sources.

As I said on my Trac wiki, you can build-up a NetBSD system using my ebuilds.
Actually, using ROOT option, I've been able to setup a working NetBSD system,
chroot inside the ROOT directory and been able to compile some C source code
with GCC: just a simple "hello world!". But it proves that GNU as and GNU ld
work with GCC, as well as include headers. So, I think the toolchain fully
works.
2 or 3 ebuilds are missing: /usr/share, /rescue and maybe /usr/games. Not to
mention an important ebuild: NetBSD kernel!

Now, my work will focus on bulk build Portage tree, and determine which ebuilds
work/fail during compilation process. After some tests, I have to install
Portage packages into a 3rd party directory, something like /usr/pkg (default
location using pkgsrc) or /usr/local. Why ? I've tried to emerge bash: bash
depends on ncurses, so I emerged ncurses before bash. ncurses compiled fine
(yes!) but while installing it, a lot of files conflicted with existing files
(mainly /usr/lib and /usr/include). My searches, to set up a different prefix
than the default one used in ebuild.sh (/usr) lead me to an interesting Gentoo
project: Gentoo Prefix. I'll dig on this to see if I can use it or not. But it
seems clear to me that I MUST use a different prefix to install packages.

Any comments/suggestions are welcome, please don't hesitate!

Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

Patrice