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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: Source Mage - Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] All Grimoire Gurus
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 21:34:01 -0700

the one problem with chrooting is that if this is supposed to be
cross-compiling, you dont get to execute what you are cross compiling,
so a chroot doesnt necessarily work.

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:24:40AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> I agree. I think chroot is more elaborate, but much more systematic
> solution to the issue at hand. Using chroot, sorcery would make sure
> nothing gets out of the jail. Since I'm not very knowledgeable in
> details of chroot-ing, I hope somebody could point me to the opinion or
> just explain why $INSTALL_ROOT and not chroot.
> Thanks!
>
> Sergey.
>
> Andrew wrote:
>
> >so in reference to a conversation with alley_cat and zero_the_hero this
> >morning, is this really a good idea? does this really accomplish what
> >we want? does it justify a grimoire wide change, and a 'from now on'
> >attitude about how to write spells? spell writing can be fickle enough
> >as it is, we dont want to introduce further complications by adding an
> >error prone feature like this as a requirement to all future spells?
> >
> >My main gripe is that this is supposed to aid in cross compilation. Well
> >no not really, because you have to hide the real system libraries and
> >include files. The standard argument appeals to ./configure; to which
> >i respond, what about all those spells that dont use it? Dont tell me
> >that the authors should go and start using configure now, thats bs and
> >we all know it.
> >
> >To me this just makes it so you can install stuff elsewhere, through an
> >overly annoying modification to many current and future spells. This
> >is going to be error prone, if you dont see it, i suggest explaining to
> >a newbie why this variable has to exist and how to sedit makefiles to
> >install in the right place. There should be a better solution than this.
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> >
> >
> >
>




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