Martin Keegan wrote:
> I found the toplevel Makefile pretty annoying last time I was building
> boot-floppies; it called itself recursively with a separate make
> process, which tended to make make -n and make -j unusable.
>
> Is Joey Hess' new installer system doing to do away with the current
> source tree in its entirety?
That's really up to the folks who maintain the modules. It should be
possible for someone to maintain a module themselves if they want, in
which case the "build system" will be a simple debian/rules plus perhaps
a makefile -- not unlike any other package.
There will have to be some makefile somewhere that can generate actual
bootable images with some of the modules preinstalled onto them, and
probably another (or the same one) that can build something like base.tgz.
We'll also have to set up something special to generate the library
(libc, etc) modules so we can do library reduction (this is complex since
you have to examine all the modules that might be used in an install to
find out what symbols are needed).
But we shouldn't have to rebuild all the modules to make a new release
of the installer, and a rebuild of a module will not necessarily force
a rebuild of the install media.
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see shy jo
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