Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Build Problems

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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John van V. wrote:
| I created 1.5 gigs of space and the make iso still complained that
there is no
| disk space.  I did a df and there were 500 MB available and the end of the
| build.

I never really looked how much space we actually need.
But it increases with every new version.

| The build claimed to be successful even though there were multiple
errors along
| the way.

What kind of errors?


| Doing each build is too time consuming  because there are so many
packages,
| most of which I dont need.

You can easily define what you want to compile with the command "make
menuconfig"

| My honest opinion is that we should begin at the beginning and step
through the
| whole process to make sure all the documentation is clear and that the
scripts
| truly exit on failure.
|
| I believe that "make" is only useful in the compliling process.  Shell
is far
| easier to use and much better understood by the majority of admins and
very
| easy to manipulate.  Sections of shell code can be recycled into other
| applications.

Isn't that what we do right now?
Make just calls the shell scripts from the "build/scripts" directory.

| Kshell provides for menues, etc, and is publically available.

I don't know kshell.


Heiko
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