Re: [linuxsh-dev] Various tool patches - should the be put on sourceforge?

[Mitch D. <mj...@al...>]

Hi Stuart,

Nice to hear from you again.

Stuart Menefy wrote:
> 
> Linux. What I was planning to ask him to do was put together a set of
> SRPM's for common tools, suitable for cross compilation.

This is a great idea.  It's especially hard for new people to
know where to go; having SRPMS would be a great step forward.

> I was thinking
> of using the MontaVista HardHat Linux distribution as a starting
> point, as this has already addressed the cross compilation problem,
> and is a reasonably distribution.

Recently I downloaded Niibe-san's "Chiyonofuji" distribution (which
is very nice to have - it has saved me a lot of time, thank you
Niibe-san!).  But I do not have the ability to rebuild some
of the software.  Basing it on something like the HardHat Linux
distribution (I have no objection to this particular one) and
making the source available for recompilation sounds like a great
way to go.

> Obviously we'd make these SRPMs (and RPMs?) available via SourceForge.

A nice idea.  Greg and I would be very happy to look after these,
if no-one else wants to.  SF is well-connected and the disk
space is free! :-)

> For things like this I'm assuming we don't want to add the source to
> CVS, as the number of changes should be small and contained, but I'm
> open to suggestions.

I think packages which have components which are extremely
SuperH-specific (like the boot-loader/gdb stub, the kernel and the
toolchain and maybe some X stuff) are good candidates for putting
into CVS.  Changes made to other packages are more likely to
require just some platform-generic tweaking to autoconf-type
mechanisms.  These don't need CVS' power and can be done as
patches.

We could create a patch category for each package that needed
patching, and use this to hold the patches until they have been
accepted by the original maintainer of the package and/or the
person doing the SuperH versions.

> What do you think? Is this worth doing?

Very much so, thanks a lot.  If you would like me to help, please
let me know.

Regards,

Mitch.
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