Re: Newbie GAR make build issue.

Nate Riffe wrote:

>Try building it on Debian 3.0.  If you do not have access to a machine
>running Debian 3.0, we have a Debian 3.0 chroot and instructions:
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Now there's an idea ... how much effort would it take to add 'make chroot'
to GAR ?  Obviously, this would not apply to gargnome but I would like
to be able to 'make chroot' for the singularity as well as bbc.

This is what I originally meant by "orthogonal".  You have GAR -- 
essentially
gar.mk and gar.lib.mk and you have BBC -- which I think of as what is in
meta/bbc/ and you have all the supported packages in the various other
subdirectories.

Although BBC nominally depends on GAR, one could have meta/woody (i.e.
debian3.0) which is completely independent of BBC.  I don't think this 
is true
for the singularity.  If I understand things correctly the singularity 
is a subset
of BBC.

In order to support multiple systems you would need a way to include 
different
versions of the same packages.  This was one of the other 
"orthogonality" issues
I mentioned.  I have not yet checked out the CVS tree so I don't know 
whether
this is part of the GAR system or not.

To include Adam's 'stow' functionality is a slightly more complicated 
problem.
It is definitely a non-orthogonal "extension" of GAR and one which would be
undesirable for some applications.

--GH.

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