[OmniOS-discuss] What do you *actually* want when you want to build illumos-gate?

[Jorge Schrauwen]

For me one and two... I can test stuff on illumos-omnos... if they seem 
good to upstream I'd love to be able to do one and two to make sure they 
don't break things.

Regards

Jorge


On 2014-10-10 22:24, Dan McDonald wrote:
> Pardon the long subject line.
> 
> Some people have asked, "Why can't I build illumos-gate on OmniOS?"
> It's a legitimate question, and I'm in the middle of an attempt to
> say, "Well, now you can."
> 
> As I'm doing this, however, I want to make sure expectations for you
> (and for me) are properly set.  So my subject-line question stands.
> Are you interested because:
> 
> 	- I want to make sure my changes compile cleanly.
> 
> 	- I want to make sure my changes lint cleanly.
> 
> 	- I want to generate replacement binaries (e.g. 
> /kernel/drv/amd64/e1000g).
> 
> 	- I want to generate packages to ONU on my OmniOS box.
> 
> 	- More?
> 
> I can answer now with my take on the above.
> 
> - I want to make sure my changes compile.
> I believe I have this working now.  It will require some .env file
> hacking on an OmniOS build box, but I will include a sample when I
> upstream.
> 
> - I want to make sure my changes lint cleanly.
> Not yet, but there's a set of changes ALREADY in OmniOS (like the
> already in use java ones for this project) that may need to show up in
> illumos-gate as well.
> 
> - I want to generate replacement binaries.
> You should be able to do this.  And if you build small (per
> http://kebesays.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-illumos-newbies-on-developing-small.html),
> you probably already could more a good chunk of binaries.
> 
> - I want to generate packages to ONU on my OmniOS box.
> This will be REALLY hard. If you really want to do this, I'd just use
> illumos-omnios.
> 
> - More?
> I'm all ears for now.
> 
> 
> Before I go any further along, I want to make sure I'm solving
> people's problems, or that they are, indeed, solvable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
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