From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26724 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2011 20:32:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 26714 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Nov 2011 20:32:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.free-electrons.com (HELO mail.free-electrons.com) (88.190.12.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:32:31 +0000 Received: by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix, from userid 106) id 7C7501BB; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:32:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from skate (pd95bb9df.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.91.185.223]) by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 09307143; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:32:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:32:00 -0000 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: David Wuertele Cc: crossgcc@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2 of 2] docs: Add strategies for assembling root filesystems Message-ID: <20111117213221.7c0d20b4@skate> In-Reply-To: References: <8bd0d6bdba97ba1f9a80.1321483527@codei7.fpelectronics.com> <201111170029.28065.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> <20111117202859.4c07bbfc@skate> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact crossgcc-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00093.txt.bz2 Hello David, Le Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:14:46 -0800, David Wuertele a =C3=A9crit : > Thomas, this is why I created Crossplex. It is a library of make > macros that let you specify arbitrary numbers of glibc or uclibc > toolchain configurations and target filesystem configurations, and it > is designed from the ground up to support efficient rebuilding and > parallel building. It has recipes for many different popular > packages. >=20 > It is still a work in progress, but Motorola (and another large > company I'm not allowed to mention) are using it to build some of > their products. >=20 > I keep the github repo (https://github.com/wuertele/crossplex) more up > to date than the website (crossplex.org). Interesting. However, the point I was making is not to advertise one particular build system, but rather to advertise the fact that *a* build system should be used rather than manual and unreproducible methods for building the root filesystem. Regards, Thomas --=20 Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq