[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Some comments about the build process

[Patrick Winnertz]

Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 11:29:21 schrieb Michael Meskes:
> > The BUILD_PLATFORM_* and BUILD_TARGET_* variables can be detected from
> > within debian/rules using dpkg-architecture(1) and a few make
> > functions. I implemented this for my own 1.4.0 packages and it worked
> > fine on both i386 and amd64.
>
> If this simplifies things I'm all for it. But without seeing the
> differences (keep in mind that I didn't do the initial packaging) it's
> hard to judge for me. Maybe Patrick and/or Daniel could comment.

Where should be the difference to the build system we have atm?

>
> > Since several debhelper scripts are already used, we might as well use
> > debhelper in the installation process -- dh_link(1), dh_install(1),
> > dh_installdirs(1), even dh_movefiles(1).
>
> This change makes a lot of sense to me.
Yes... this is a point on my todo list (which i want to do in my x-mas 
holidays (which are starting on 20.th Dec). So if you agree I'll work on 
this issue in my x-mas holidays :)

>
> > The official (non-free) VirtualBox packages put all the shared
> > libraries into /usr/lib that the binaries are linked against, making
> > mucking with LD_LIBRARY_PATH unnecessary. I recall trying to
> > accomplish this for my packages, but I think I never got anywhere...
>
> Frankly I'm not sure whether this is really a good idea.
Mh... I'll have a look at it in x-mas holidays

>
> > Finally, I think I might have found a way to cross-compile Windows
> > drivers on a Debian system. This would allow us to ship the .iso as
> > part of the package, but I haven't worked out the details yet.
Please note that parts of the windows drivers are non-free code.. So I 
don't know if it is possible to build windows drivers at all. 

If you like we could have a look on it together (I was the guy who reviewed 
the complete sourcecode for license issues). 

Greetings
Winnie

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