[maemo-developers] Clean build environment

[From: David Greaves]

Kees Jongenburger wrote:
> 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!

Got the first version running tonight.

David


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