Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] Short-term roadmap

[Kai W. <kai...@gm...>]

This is a resend msg, I forgot to CC developer list last time.
Sorry about this.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:32:00AM -0000, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> 
> 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.

Great! :-)

> 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.

Just in case, I can help at least with 1.2) if need, and of course
I will help with testing.

> 2) Then we would need to retarget ar(1) to use the new libelf instead
>    of libarchive. [Task #149994] (owned by jkoshy or kaiwang27)

I'll take this task.

> 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.

elfcopy is not completed yet...

> 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?

I think we should. elfcopy probably will not be finished at the time of
our first release, if the release is soon. (strip was basically finished though)
So I guess we should exclude elfcopy/strip from first release...

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

NetBSD and FreeBSD? 

By the way, What does it looks like on OpenBSD? Is it easy to port
to Linux?

> 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
> 
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