On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:25:07PM +0100, Sebastian Ley wrote: > Michael Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > No, the way I understood it, it must be like this: > > Make build dependencies on gtk-directfb and all its required libraries > for the _installer_ (-> build/debian/control). Then one has to install > these libs onto the build system in order to build the installer. > If at buildtime there is any executable in the buildtree that uses > functions of one of these libraries, mklibs will create reduced > libraries from the ones installed on the build systems and copy it on > the install tree. > > I tried that: > I took all libraries from normal debs except gtk-directfb for which > there exists no deb and directfb, because the one in sid is too > old. Then I compiled the latter two myself and installed them onto my > build system. When I built the installer with putting > EXTRAFILES=/usr/bin/gtk-demo into the Makefile mklibs copies the > required libraries and reduces them. The additional libraries eat up > 4MB of diskspace. >
sounds great. > So if we stick to that mechanism, we would need the following: > > - debs for gtk-directfb > - recent debs for directfb (we could ask the maintainer for that) > - perhaps: udebs for the other libraries (pango, freetype...) > containing only configuration and data files > - perhaps: an udeb for fonts > - we need /dev/tty* and /dev/fb* > - fb support activated in the installer kernel? > - ...? > > Any comments? > > Sebastian > I'm still working on the pango deb, and I'll email the directfb maintainer. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue." - Yuan Wu
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