[153] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: TAMU Linux src+bin release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Wed Sep 22 05:43:38 1993
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 93 05:42:52 -0400
From: David Krikorian <dkk@mit.edu>
To: eichin@mit.edu
Cc: linux-dev@mit.edu
Reply-To: dkk@mit.edu
Even if we were to continue using/promoting SLS, I would want to have
the master copy of the binaries set up like this, with a full build
tree. Yes, it's a lot of space, but there are some real advantages.
These come to mind:
- makes debugging easier
- gives hackers (eg: us) a much better feel for the system
- gives us no excuse to use the old and broken versions of programs
(eg: tar) rather than building our own
- provides better confidence/trust in the programs, since we would
otherwise be approving of and distributing binaries which
were compiled by strangers from unknown sources
The 250 Meg of build space is really a lot to consume, but if we
needed to, we could probably set up a master Makefile which did a
"tar zxf" of each source tarfile into temporary build space...
