Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] Short-term roadmap

[Hyogeol L. <hyo...@gm...>]

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Joseph Koshy :
| Hi,
|
| I would like to open discussion on our short term roadmap: i.e.,
| planning for our first release.  The goal of this release would be
| to produce a tarball that the other projects could start looking
| at.
|
| It seems to me that we have the following tasks need to be completed
| before we can have any kind of release:
|
| 1) Bring libelf to the point where ar(1) can be implemented using
|    it:
|    1.1) libelf needs to be able to create ar(1) archives [Task #149800]
|    1.2) libelf needs to handle BSD format ar(1) archives.  Currently
|         it only understands SysV format archives. [Task #149801]
|
|    These tasks would be owned by me, unless someone else wants to take
|    them up.
|
| 2) Then we would need to retarget ar(1) to use the new libelf instead
|    of libarchive. [Task #149994] (owned by jkoshy or kaiwang27)
|
| 3) Then a sanity-check porting pass to port ar(1) to other OSes.
|  
| `nm', `size' and `strings' run fine on NetBSD and FreeBSD.  I haven't
| looked at `elfcopy' on NetBSD yet but do not anticipate trouble
| either.
|
| So the questions are:
|
| - Do you think we should defer the first release till we have other
|   tools ready?  If so, which tools would these be?


Yes, 'brandelf'. It may does not take much time to implement/patch

'brandelf'. It is good idea to prepare 'as', but I'd like to put it 
later release

because it will take much time to implement.


|
| - If the idea of a release is ok, what OSes do we target for the first
|   release?

FreeBSD/NetBSD.
|
| Also: do you know of any organization offering a "build farm" with
| different OSes?  I'd love to have a collection of buildbot/bitten
| slaves that could build our source tree on different OSes
| automatically.
|
| Koshy


Best Regards,
Hyogeol Lee
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