[Aegisvm-devel] Build environment

[Philip F. <pw...@us...>]

Hi all,

Many of you complained about the difficulty of setting up the
build environment properly.  Yes, I felt your pain, and I also
would like you to spend your time on something more productive
than installing software.  :-)  This is what I am doing to help:

1/ It turns out that Jerry is quite a Linux wizard himself.
   And it turns out that there is no shortage of Redhat Linux 7.2
   based machines in the CSIL lab.  Jerry is now checking out if
   those machines have all the tools we need.  If so, that would
   be a perfect development environment.

2/ As Wei have suggested, I talked to Rob, and he is now considering
   the setting up of Linux workstations and servers in the 
   Computer Language and Software Systems Lab.  When that becomes
   a reality, you will be able to connect to a shell server from you
   Windows/Linux machine at home, and all the development tools will
   be in place for you.  There might even be possibility that you 
   will have access to the lab.  This is the best scenario we can
   have.

3/ I filed a service request to the sourceforge administration, asking
   them to install all our development tools on their compile farm.
   It is unlikely they will comply though.

If any of the above three possibilities materializes, then you will
no longer need to struggle with setting up your own build environment.
So, stay tuned... :-)

Philip

*  Philip W. L. Fong
*  pw...@us...