[maemo-developers] Clean build environment

[From: David Greaves]

Graham Cobb wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 12:35:35 Ed Bartosh wrote:
>> There is such a tool and autobuilder is uses it.
>> It's called sbdmock and you can find it here:
>> http://github.com/kad/sbdmock/tree/master
> 
> I thought it was just a build tool -- can it also be used to provide an 
> environment where the developer can sit in a scratchbox target which has been 
> cleanly created and test things out from a command line (e.g. try a build, 
> then look for the missing files configure is complaining about, try manually 
> installing something and see if that fixes the problem, etc, etc?).

OBS (which we're using in Mer) does something like this too
  http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build

Everything builds from a pristine chroot.

I'm working on creating a pseudo package called 'sdk' which gives you more of
what you want.

David

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