From: Michael C. <mi...@ca...> - 2007-09-19 17:50:29
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when might this be fixed. I actually just bought a Mac (first time ever for me) Just for working with my gumstix project. this is a little unsettling to hear that the BuildRoot is out of date. What needs to be done to merge it back or bring it up to date. -Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Hylands" <dhy...@gm...> To: "General mailing list for gumstix users." <gum...@li...> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Out of date os x buildroot > Hi Ethan, > >> Personally, I wonder about the wisdom of maintaining a "branch". >> Most packages I've built work just fine with little or no >> modification, and don't require separate linux and os x build >> routines. Instead of trying to actively maintain a branch, wouldn't >> it be better to just patch the trunk to detect the platform and tweak >> the flags and such which are used? (e.g. cp -p (for "preserve") >> instead of cp -a is an obvious one I ran into off the bat... I think >> these are mostly BSD vs. Linux issues, so you'll pick up more than >> just OS X) > > I think that the intention by the original maintainer was to > eventually merge back, but the main branch went through some major > revisions which made a merge unfeasible (at least that's my > recollection). > > I'm sure Craig would accept patches where appropriate. > > The real effort is getting the patches merged upstream into the main > buildroot, which requires somebody to manage it. > > -- > Dave Hylands > Vancouver, BC, Canada > http://www.DaveHylands.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |