From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (jazzswing.ncsc.mil [144.51.68.65]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00090 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:36:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id VAA26199 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:34:02 GMT Received: from pandora.snu.edu ([204.126.2.1]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with SMTP id VAA26192 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:34:00 GMT Message-Id: Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:35:26 -0600 From: "Joshua Brindle" To: Subject: Re: SELinux distro building Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov >I think that autoconf would be good for this. Also perhaps my script for >extracting header files from the kernel patch (instead of from a kernel >source tree) would be a good addition to the distribution. I agree, thats pretty much what i was thinking about. I can't even imagine trying to distribute code to the public without a configure system. If someone is more familiar with autoconf and the basic build process of selinux than me then i'd be very gracious if they worked on this >I think it would be good to have the selinux-small split into two parts, one >for the header files and library code for compiling applications, and the >other for policy, run_init, etc. EXACTLY!. the libs have to be installed before the policy compiler anyway, they should be 2 separate packages. Either that, or selinux-small should know how to link to libs in it's own directory before being installed, a single package with several "install" steps isn't a clean implementation, and makes distro packaging a pain. >I agree. Perhaps if I had posted patches here in the past rather than just >talking about it then something would have happened. I suggest that you post >your patches here. My patches are basically hacked INSTALLPREFIX and fixed paths into the Makefile, it is clearly not something that would be helpful, autoconf would be much better. Joshua Brindle UNIX Administrator Southern Nazarene University -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.