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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:

> In order to do what you want (build inside a chroot) you have to have an
> entire functioning system, including all the dependencies of the spell
> you're building, inside the chroot. You cant simply build something that
> links against libraries without that stuff installed. You cant build
> subversion if apr isnt installed. So the chroot for installing would
> have to be pre-generated. Is this an idea worth considering? Definitly.
> Will it eliminate INSTALL/TRACK_ROOT variables? I disagree, it just
> changes (some of) the implementation. Will it make for less work for
> spell maintainers? Depends. (more on this after some background on how
> things work now)

Actually, this is not what I suggest. What if building is done in the regular
system (with root in TRACK_ROOT), and only doing install in the chroot (using
INSTALL_ROOT as root). Karsten made a good point, in order for "make install"
to succeed, we need at least make, bash, and install working in chroot.

Sergey.