[haiku-development] Re: Haiku R1A5 release timeline

  • From: Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:07:33 -0400

What we really need is a way to build packages automagically for all arches
at the same time.

I'll look into it...
-Augustin


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM, SMC.Collins <smc.collins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>  To give another example of what the quality concerns are: today, I've
> spent
> more than 8 hours trying to fix a problem in Pe. Doing the actual fix in
> code
> took about 15 mins. The rest of the time was spent trying to build the
> three
> packages of Pe for* x86_gcc2, x86 and x86_64*. During that process, I've
> noticed and fixed a problem in the binutils recipe, which caused binutils
> to
> require flex without declaring that (so binutils would work on a full
> Haiku
> installation but not in the chroots haikuporter uses for building. When
> that
> was fixed and Pe had been built for all three architectures, I noticed
> that
> it was using libpcre-8.33, which is the newest version in the haikuports
> tree, but isn't contained in the actual HaikuPorts repositories used by
> Haiku. So, the built Pe packages wouldn't work when I'd upload them ...
>  cheers,
> Oliver (drama queen)
>   Those builds are not part of the official release goals for R1afaik ,
> first and foremost, Gcc2 and hybrids afaik for x86 are all that is
> officially supported. The others are relegated as nightlys. So while the
> work is appreciated it is not mandatory for Haiku R1 alpha or betas of any
> variety because they are unsupported variants.
>  Sean
>

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