Re: Make world?
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:40:14AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote:
> Is there some kind of 'make world' infrastructure in GNU/Hurd? I'd like
> to be able to update (at least) hurd/, glibc/, gnumach/, mig/ and grub/
> sources directly from subversions.gnu.org and just call 'make world' to
> get everyting recompiled. (a la FreeBSD). The same for single parts too
> and of course for selected debian sources as well.
>
> It would be a nice feature that may not be that hard to set up but that
> is extremely practical.
IIRC, that's supposed to be possible somehow with autoconf. I know that
if "configure" scripts are chained together, they will share
information. If there's no reply here in a while, I'll ask elsewhere.
(Thomas and Roland have certainly been around long enough to know if such
an idea ever became real)
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