Re: Build process

[Jerome Brown <guruswami@orcon.net.nz>]

I'm running Gentoo and would be very happy to test etc - I have been 
thinking about writing an ebuild myself, but haven't got around to it.

If your interested, post on the Gentoo-Server mailing list and ask there 
  there are a few interested parties from memory.

Jerome

Philip Taylor wrote:
> Keir Fraser wrote on 08/11/2004 08:05:
> 
> ...
> 
>>    Would it be possible/safe to use something like 'CC ?= gcc' and
>>
>>> 'HOSTCC ?= $(CC)' (I hope that does what I expect) in all the 
>>> relevant makefiles, so the compiler can be easily overriden? Or is 
>>> there some other solution that I've missed?
> 
> ...
> 
>> Have you tried tricks like creating a symlink in a local directory to
>> your preferred compiler and adding it to your PATH? e.g.,
>>  # ln -sf `which ccache' gcc
>>  # PATH=`pwd`:$PATH make
> 
> 
> Ah, that worked (after I apparently fork-bombed my machine and also 
> corrupted python). But it turns out that Gentoo's Portage automatically 
> makes ccache handle calls to 'gcc' anyway, and the problems with GCC 3.4 
> were straightforward to fix (see patch at 
> http://zaynar.demon.co.uk/misc2/blkfront.patch - it needs inline 
> functions to be defined before they're first called).
> 
> I believe my attempt at a kernel ebuild is generally working (using the 
> 2.0 source release plus the above patch for GCC 3.4), though currently 
> only for 2.6.9-xen0 and with a little too much manual intervention. It 
> also compiles the rest of Xen + tools + docs without any problems, but 
> doesn't quite know how to install them. Anyway, I should end up with 
> something useful soon, so I'd be interested to know if anybody with 
> Gentoo would be interested in testing/using it.
> 
> 
>>  -- Keir
>>
> 


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