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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2000 14:41:59 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com>
To:        freebsd-small <freebsd-small@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Progress on TinyBSD make-based build
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005111359510.63081-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>

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It's taken me a little longer than I expected, but I have finished a beta
version of the TinyBSD Development Kit, complete with all the original
features that I wanted to put in.  I haven't looked into the features that
people have suggested, but I plan to at some point.  Once I write some
documentation, I will make a release it somewhere for cheers and jeers
(hopefully more of the former :).

It's not really a huge deal; it's pretty much just a Makefile, a script, a
directory tree, and some sample conf files.  The Makefile is softlinked
throughout the directory tree and serves as the user interface to the
build system.  The script, named 'config', takes conf files and generates
a set of makefiles that do the actual work of building a distribution.

Like I predicted, I did not have ample time to worry about extraneous
testing for error conditions.  Thus, it is incredibly easy to screw
something up and get no more feedback than a failed make.  More work needs
to be done in that area.

Also, I'm not quite up the super-guru level that a lot of you are.  Making
this thing go has been very educational for me, but I'm sure there are a
few boneheaded things still left in there as a result of my
non-guru-ness.  A second result is that I'm not really sure what the best
method of release is.  What should I do?  Put a tarball up on a web site
somewhere?  Start a CVS server (overkill?)?

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Jeffrey S. Sharp   (XorAxAx)
jss@subatomix.com

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