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diff --git a/site/gnu/index.php b/site/gnu/index.php index b216dd5..80bf282 100644 --- a/site/gnu/index.php +++ b/site/gnu/index.php @@ -103,11 +103,39 @@ </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 |