[oi-dev] OS/Net build skeleton, handy for illumos and OpenIndiana developers

Nikola M. minikola at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 13:16:53 UTC 2011


On 06/06/11 19:17, Gordon Ross wrote:
> Sometimes I prefer to develop new code outside of an "OS/Net"-style gate
> (like the illumos gate) because (a) it eliminates the merge work otherwise
> needed to keep up with the upstream, and (b) builds are very much faster
> because you're only building your own stuff, not all of ON.
>
> For this purpose, I've created a "skeleton" of an OS/Net gate:
>   https://bitbucket.org/gwr/os-net-skeleton
>
> You can use it to build drivers, libraries, and commands.
> It does not currently do anything about packaging.  For now,
> I just use a script to copy binaries onto my target.  Adding
> support to build a package would be a nice improvement.
>
> See usr/src/Readme.txt (in the above) for more details....
This looks great to me, I was just reading some docs about Solaris drivers.
I suppose it is in sync with latest IllumOS OS/nNet?
Thank you for this.
N.




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