[openbeos] Re: building obos

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The build system could be fixed in this respect, but it looks like 
> more work 
> than I would think it deserves. IMHO the boot floppy method is 
> outdated and 
> should better be removed alltogether. Noone has tested it for a 
> while, so 
> even if you can build a boot floppy, it might not work.

The boot floppy is still supposed to work, and indeed works here 
without any problems.
But in general, Ingo is right: the boot floppy does not give you an 
idea about where we are now.
It's still there since our new boot loader does not yet support to be 
booted from a floppy (or CD-ROM), and also, because this is the only 
way to build a working Haiku under Linux, as we require write access to 
a BFS volume to build an Haiku image.

I hope we'll be able to sort those problems out in the future - we're 
aware of the fact that our build system sucks :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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