[openbeos] Re: What happened to BeOS in your OpenBeOS plans?

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:26:09 +0100 (MET)

Besides, even if make has its ups and downs, even the Linux kernel uses make to 
get built. I consider make like kinda standard, even ppl not knowing anything 
on devel stuff on Linux know they need to type ./configure; make; make install 
=)
Makefile rulz.
/me begining to feel as the conservative party here :^)
(not to say there shouldn't be any other, wouldn't be interesting without:))

En réponse à Nathan Whitehorn <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> >  >Well there is another issue.  When OpenBeOS is to the point
> >  >that linux was say, at Rev 1.0, people will want to download
> >  >it and compile it.  And that means that you will either need to
> >  >rewrite it all to use make or you will have to provide a runtime
> >  >version of "jam" just for OS compilation.
> > 
> > This is really a non-issue since we can make prebuild binaries 
> > available 
> > all over the place: openbeos.org, bebits; heck, we could even put it
> 
> > in 
> > the source tree (not saying we should).
> 
> You will *really* appreciate batch building the release at some point.
> 
> Trust me on this. Also, lots of people like to compile it for 
> themselves.
> -Nathan
> 
> --
> Fortune Cookie Says:
> 
> A tautology is a thing which is tautological.
> 
> 
> 





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