[lokisetup] build machine

Timothee Besset ttimo at idsoftware.com
Sat Feb 23 15:26:05 EST 2002


Is that based on a particular distribution, or is it a linux from scratch?
My baseline machine is a Mandrake 7.2 and I never got compatibility issues
yet.

TTimo

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 15:16:14 -0500 (EST)
"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus at clutteredmind.org> wrote:

> 
> > heh .. what is your 'Virtual Build Box' :-)
> 
> I've got a system that generates binaries that work universally
> (regardless of glibc version, etc), which I use to make "blessed" binary
> releases.
> 
> It runs inside a vmWare virtual machine, so that I don't have to devote an
> entire computer to the intricate setup involved, and so that it is easy to
> distribute to others that could benefit from it.
> 
> It you want it, it's a 250 meg download that uncompresses to about 1.5
> gigs (and the virtual disk can expand with usage up to around 4 gigs). It
> needs vmWare 3 to run, and the kernel in the virtual machine expects a
> Pentium III (but that can be recompiled for something else).
> 
> Alternately, I can send you the system CHANGELOG i've been keeping, so
> you can get an idea of what it took to put the VBB together.
> 
> > #if defined(HAVE_BZIP2_SUPPORT)
> >   [snip]
> > #else
> >   #define BZOPEN gzopen
> >   #define BZDOPEN gzdopen
> >   #define BZREAD gzread
> >   #define BZWRITE gzwrite
> >   #define BZERROR gzerror
> >   #define BZCLOSE gzclose
> > #endif
> 
> I'll update the configure.in script, but there's already gzip support
> elsewhere, so at best, this is redundant.
> 
> --ryan.
> 
> 
> 
> 



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