bug#111: [Lnx-bbc-devel] creating different distributions based on LNX-BBC

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:26:19AM -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> Jac Kersing writes:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > As mentioned on irc, I'm working on a LNX-BBC based distribution for
> > compacflash based router/firewall and appliciance boxes. 
> 
> Your requirement is the same as what we've previously referred to as
> "build profiles".  Nate, Nick, did we figure out the proper way to
> handle them?
> 
> The basic idea is that there will be environment variables which can
> be set to affect how compilation proceeds at every stage.  GNU make
> supports the equivalent of C's #ifdef, so a single Makefile can
> compile differently depending on the way environment variables are
> set.  I think the outstanding questions, when this was last discussed,
> were which environment variables to use, and how to organize the meta
> packages so that they react appropriately and flexibly to these variables.

Instead of (or perhaps in addition to) ARCH, perhaps we need DISTRO?

Thus he can have the flashfw DISTRO and I could work on my trek DISTRO
and lgaz DISTRO and Bill could work on his x_users DISTRO.

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