Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Is a compilation depend on the running kernel?
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:04:34
Message-Id: 20101231161641.GA26940@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Is a compilation depend on the running kernel? by Mike Frysinger
1 * Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> schrieb:
2 > On Thursday, December 30, 2010 01:46:34 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
3 > > Little example, where I'm working on right now: coreutils and gnulib.
4 > > Imagine, these jerks not just collected hundreds of (sometimes really
5 > > broken) tests and workarounds instead of fixing the source - they
6 > > also collected them in another "package" called gnulib, which gets
7 > > fetched via git (from the current head instead of some release tag!)
8 > > and _copied_ into the coreutils source tree by some obscure
9 > > "bootstrap" script. Wow, self-modifying code. Violating all rules
10 > > of the very first semester in software engineering ;-o
11 >
12 > yeah, once you start fixing Microsoft's runtime library and Solaris' C library
13 > and old UNIX systems whose owners long died and ........, feel free to get
14 > gnulib obsoleted. but until that happens, stop living in an unrealistic
15 > world. gnulib exists for a very real reason and is extremely useful to many
16 > many people.
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18 You didn't get my point. I was talking about the way of copying
19 in (parts of) gnulib into other package's source tree in an
20 unpredicable way, directly within the build process.
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22 The clean way (tm) would be making it a real library, that's
23 just imported by other packages and maybe provides some
24 additional autoconf macros. I'm currently in the process of
25 doing exactly that.
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27 git://pubgit.metux.de/oss-qm/gnulib-src.git
28 git://pubgit.metux.de/oss-qm/coreutils.git
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31 cu
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