Landon J Fuller wrote:
I'd personally find a lot of value in being able to very easily automatically
build the full OS, using the toolchain configured for the purpose (including
cross-compilation).
Being able to automate as much as possible is certainly desirable. I doubt that
we will be able to build the whole OS from the scratch automatically anytime
soon, though. One major problem is that many software packages cannot be
cross-built by default (even something as fundamental as bash falls into that
category). Making/hacking them so that they can be cross-built is likely quite
a lot of one-time and continuous maintenance work. I think it is more realistic
that we get cross-building support going for the minimal set of software
packages required to do native builds. A fully automatic OS build would then
involve building most software in a VM.
