[PATCH] autoshit/libfool fixes

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Jun 12 19:23:34 PDT 2005


On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:50:33PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > What exactly is a 'sysroot environment'?
> 
> The whole build (includes, libs, etc) happens in an completely 
> separate environment under some prefix. Maybe call it jail.
> An clean sysroot build is completely independent from the host
> system - neither imports anything from it, nor installing 
> anything to it. 
> 
> So you can build for virtually any target platform no matter
> what host system you're using (as long as the right build tools 
> are installed on the build host, of course)
> 
> I absolutely require this for my fully automated system builder.

So it's a chroot with a cross-compiler.  The chroot part works fine --
that's how I tested it.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
Url : http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-modular/attachments/20050613/ef6c4f69/attachment.pgp


More information about the xorg-modular mailing list