I suppose the initial Tycho repository should be something like the attached one. I downloaded upstream source from http://git.eclipse.org/c/tycho/org.eclipse.tycho.git/snapshot/org.eclipse.tycho-tycho-0.23.0.tar.xz Il 20/10/2015 19:06, Markus Koschany ha scritto: > Am 20.10.2015 um 12:58 schrieb Luca Vercelli: >> I am not an expert with mh_make, however I see a problem here. >> Eclipse build depends on Tycho, however Tycho build depends on both >> Eclipse and Tycho itself! > Indeed that is nasty. But it looks like the Fedora maintainers have > solved this issue too. [1] We need to do something similar for Debian to > break this circular dependency. > >> So, two problems: >> (1) mh_make fails for both projects. >> Markus, can you explain me how were you able to build the base structure >> of Eclipse without mh_make? I should do the same with Tycho. > mh_make often chokes on bigger projects with a lot of unpackaged > dependencies. I simply ignored as many dependencies as I could and you > can find the end result in maven.rules and maven.ignoreRules. Then I > used the current packaging for Eclipse as a template. It should be > sufficient to start with a minimal debian/rules files. In the first > phase we only have to modify the maven.* files and debian/control. For > Tycho you can basically do the same. > > If you can answer the question why mh_make fails with Tycho, you will > know what dependency we should package first. Just let me know what > dependencies we need for Tycho and I can lend you a hand. > > >> (2) How to build everything? >> Fedora packagers were able to build just a tiny part of Tycho (a >> "bootstrap"), then a tiny part of Eclipse, then Tycho, and at last >> Eclipse. What about Debian? > AFAIK they provide different build options. The bootstrap is one of them > but otherwise Eclipse and Tycho build-depend on each other. I don't know > how to solve this properly yet but I expect we will end up with doing > something similar. Remember that the optimization step is always the > last part, so feel free to solve this issue with the least amount of effort. > > Markus > > > [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/tycho.git/tree/ >
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