Re: Hurd F1 ISO and booting
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:04:33AM -0400, Russell Francis wrote:
> I am rather new to the list but, if you are thinking of new ways to
> package and distribute a shiny new Hurd system I have a suggestion.
> I used to use FreeBSD and I absolutely loved the ports collection!
> You simply change to the directory of the program you want and type
> make install. It fetches the source, builds it and installs it. It
> was by far the easiest system to maintain ever. I think the Hurd
> could benefit a great deal from a system much like the BSD ports
> collection.
2 things:
1) In what way would it benefit?
2) On a working Hurd system, if you untar all of the required source
packages, and write a master autoconf file to chain to all of the
directories in the correct order. If you're clever, you can ask them
to share a cache file which will speed up the detection process, and
chain the appropriate --prefix, --sysdir.
IIRC, that was one of the original visions of autoconf, was
configuring the whole GNU system at once. I think it basically turned
out that few of us wanted to do that, because I've never heard anyone
talk about it.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
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