On Sunday 16 September 2007, Omer Zak wrote: > The only big Free Software project to be open in this respect, of which > I am aware, is the Linux kernel project. This is the only project, for > which several distributions provide ready-made packages of source code, > development environment, and re-compilation support. > > I wonder whether it's possible to do one or more of the following: > > 1. Build, for popular distributions, packages and meta-packages which > cause the full build environment for a project to be installed.
Dare I say... Gentoo? :-) You could make a Gentoo VM (or simply a chroot tarball) with the necessary packages installed, too. If you've got something installed on Gentoo, you automatically have the right build environment for it as well as a working build script written in bash that you can play with (the ebuild). Old or new, non-packaged versions will normally also build. There's also support for having many versions of different toolchain (gcc/binutils/...) components installed (as well as JDKs, etc.) and you can switch between them on system/user/shell levels. And other things in that vein... -- Dan Armak ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
