On 1/24/06, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, if you could spell out your steps exactly when doing an ICA (or > point me to the thread if you've said before and I missed it) that might > help - more might offer to start running the comparisons.
Fortunately, I have an unpacked set of scripts online. This file: http://staff.washington.edu/dbnichol/lfs/dbn-build-20060123/functions/ica does all the work for me. do_ica_prep and do_ica_work are basically lifted right from gsbuild: http://www.diy-linux.org/downloads/contrib/greg_schafer/gsbuild/ do_ica_prep is called at the end of the iteration. Copies the files to a temporary location and gets the files ready for diffing. The comments should be helpful as to what's being done (stripping, unpacking archives, etc.) When everything is done, do_ica_work is called to compare the temp dirs from two iterations. This does the actual diffing and reporting. do_farce_prep is just a call to copy the files right now. do_farce_work does everything, but it's just a wrapper around Ken's own filelist and farce tools. You can look at both of them here: http://staff.washington.edu/dbnichol/lfs/dbn-build-20060123/extras/farce/ This is a patched farce-001-5 to more closely resemble do_ica_prep. All I added was to strip symbols from static binaries before diffing and stripping the debug symbols from .o members of unpacked .a archives. Whether that's valid or not, I don't know. So, filelist makes a list of all the files with some exceptions. Actually, I completely circumvent most of filelist's decisions with the do_ica_files function so that filelist works in a temporary area. farce then does the file processing and diffing in for two iterations in parallel, so I have to wait till all the iterations are done before I call do_farce_work. farce gives greater detail on results among other things. > Also, as Greg once mentioned, I'm a little interested in putting > ICA/farce support usage into jhalfs. That too, might make the work a bit > easier. If you feel like helping with that as well... ;) I'd be glad to contribute. make is not my specialty (I live in the land of bash), but I think I can give some ideas about looping the build and creating ICA targets. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
