[maemo-developers] Clean build environment

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, David Greaves<david at dgreaves.com> wrote:
> 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.
Sounds very interesting!

Greetings