[haiku-development] Re: External package woes (was What to do with termcap?)
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:29:06 -0800
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:50 PM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would it be possible to modify the build system to grab and build a package
> from a haikuport instead of grabbing a pre-build binary since the haikuport
> package already "reproduce[s[ their build systems' installation procedure"
> in the bep file and is already "out of tree"?
More than likely, we'll have to modify each bep, and possibly a
version of HaikuPorter to support cross-compilation to accomplish
this. Right now, bep files pretty much assume they're being used from
a Haiku host.
> A few more questions:
>
> What relation does current build system have to haikuports if any?
None.
> What relation does haikuports have to the future proposed package management
> system if any?
To Be Defined? :)
- Urias
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