Mark,
So anyone who would like to build for a new platform would only need the
distribution source? But as I said, I do not know yet what is in place for
distributing the source or binary, what was but in place in the CVS week?
Steve.
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Sent: 13 July 2004 10:59
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Subject: Re: All cvs.
Steve,
> I thought that one of the main points of doing all of the
autoconf/automake
> stuff was to allow people to build everything for them selves, so that we
do
> not have to support directly any more platforms (encourage community and
> self support). I have already had requests for Tru64 stuff, and they are
> quite willing to build everything for themselves, how well they will get
on
> with fixing stuff is another problem.
you're right about the aims, but as Tim says you don't need the CVS source
for this, only the distribution source. Distributed packages, built
directly from the CVS archive, are (or should be, once it's all working)
sufficient to do a build on systems we haven't seen before without
requiring any of our customised build support stuff (automake, autoconf,
starconf etc). People who need the CVS source will be developers
(including us)
Mark
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