[openbeos] Re: haiku svn tree

On 2007-02-27 at 21:41:01 [+0100], Grzegorz Dąbrowski <gdx@xxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 20:11 +0100, Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> > On 2007-02-27 at 20:28:02 [+0100], Grzegorz Dąbrowski <gdx@xxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have a simple question. Why some packages from haiku svn tree are not
> > > build by default (haiku-image)? E.g. bc, make, bzip2, chkbfs, ...
> > 
> > An app/whatever is added by the developers usually when they realize it is
> > missing and they need it or just want to test it (or want to have others
> > test it). Its present absence may simply mean it didn't fall into that
> > category yet. For some apps there more profound reasons to be missing,
> > though. make isn't included since Haiku still has some problems that
> > prevent you from building larger projects anyway -- adding it now would
> > just increase everyone's build time without any benefit. chkbfs is pretty
> > much obsolete; just as the recently discussed chkbfs it will be replaced 
> > by
> > a generic tool (which still has to be written).
> > 
> 
> OK, I understand. Maybe it's a good idea to create additional jam
> targets haiku-devel-image/install-haiku-devel with developer tools like
> make, gcc (can we compile buildtools to be compatible with Oliver
> Tappe's gcc 2.95.3?). I think that many people could be interested in.
> In my opinion we have to have a possibility to develop Haiku on the
> Haiku and make it more stable!

Rest assured as soon as building things greater than a "Hello World" becomes 
viable we'll see that we make it an option to include build tools in the 
image. But at the moment it doesn't help anyone, if we include the tools, 
people run them, and hit KDL pretty soon. Our kernel devs are aware of those 
issues (and others) and will fix them. Please bear with us... :-)

CU, Ingo

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