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authorCaleb Herbert <csh@bluehome.net>2016-05-15 07:45:44 (EDT)
committer Leah Woods <info@minifree.org>2016-05-15 08:47:54 (EDT)
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</h2>
<ul class="c">
<li>
- Modify the build system, to directly download the build dependencies
- that libreboot currently tells the user to install from their distribution package repository. (Only in Git. Release archives would have them already). Build these from source, with
- our own GCC (re-using coreboot's GCC, which libreboot already uses). This will make <em>complete corresponding source</em> provision easier,
- because it would be automated; this is in contrast to the present setup, where the person distributing binaries has to include
- the sources for build dependencies from the distribution that they happened to use for compiling those packages.
+ Modify the build system, to
+ directly download the
+ build dependencies
+ that libreboot
+ currently tells the
+ user to install from
+ their distribution
+ package repository.
+ (Only in Git. Release
+ archives would have
+ them already). Build
+ these from source,
+ with our own GCC
+ (re-using coreboot's
+ GCC, which libreboot
+ already uses). This
+ will make <em>complete
+ corresponding
+ source</em> provision
+ easier, because it
+ would be automated;
+ this is in contrast to
+ the present setup,
+ where the person
+ distributing binaries
+ has to include the
+ sources for build
+ dependencies from the
+ distribution that they
+ happened to use for
+ compiling those
+ packages.
+
<ul>
<li>This will also make everything self-contained, and coreboot already has integration for cross-compiling. We can make cross compilation
of utilities for non-x86 architectures much easier, without relying on quirks from the user's GNU/Linux distribution, where the