XLibre on Linux From Scratch (LFS/BFS)

[callmetango]

Extracted from Update ones.c by lm8 · Pull Request #358 · X11Libre/xserver:

By @lm8 X11Libre/xserver#358 (comment):

I started with a current stable Debian system. I used Rich Felker's build for a musl cross compiler (git clone https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make.git). Used most of the config.mak settings as they were and just added target and output. I built the compiler. I went through LFS/BLFS documents for all the package dependencies needed to build X11Libre. I spent several days including my vacation time building all the prerequisites from source. You can take or leave the patch I sent. My results from this are that X11Libre fails to build as is on that system.

[callmetango]

By @callmetango X11Libre/xserver#358 (comment)

@lm8 Thank you very much for your effort! Would you like share to what steps you have taken to set up LFS/BLFS etc. to build XLibre?

[callmetango]

By @lm8 X11Libre/xserver#358 (comment)

If someone would be interested, I'd be okay with sharing. I use my own package management/build scripts. I'm still trying to figure logistics on the best way to share the scripts. The input that creates the scripts would be pretty useless without the package/build tools. The output is a bash script customized for a specific system with paths and core utilities available on that system. So someone would have to modify that if they wanted to use the bash script on another system with different paths or tools. Each script also needs the source tarball for the package. So, if I added the scripts to a git repository, wondering if I needed to add the tarballs they work with for completeness. Not sure if it makes sense storing tarballs via git. Might just be easier if someone's interested, I can email them information on what I did. What do you think is the best method of sharing information of that nature?

[callmetango]

@lm8

What do you think is the best method of sharing information of that nature?

I extracted the discussion from the above mentioned pull request and would like to find out how to best deal with your way of building XLibre here.

Am I correct in understanding that you built XLibre with LFS/BLFS, or is it more of a Debian-based build?

[lm8]

I don't think it matters what Linux system you build on. I did use Debian for the base but I built a gcc musl cross compiler and used it to compile everything. I typically build locally in my home directory on Linux and package the results in tarballs. I have a package management/build system that helps generate the bash scripts to build the packages with. I can share the scripts that are generated. The nice thing about being able to generate the scripts is that I can change the build directory or the prefix or certain tools out and just regenerate the scripts without having to edit each build script by hand when I need to change something. I could upload the scripts to codeberg if anyone's interested. Just not sure how best to get this stuff into git and how much to share. There's a directory with my input to the build system. There's a directory with the build script, patches, etc. targeted to a particular platform. There's the tarball of the package that the build script needs to build. There's a tmp directory (which typically gets removed after the build) that has the source during the build. There's also a tarball with the libraries or executables built for a particular target and ready to install. I'm not sure if I should try to add all of that to a repository or if I should just upload the build script input and a targeted build script that's created from it and let people modify and build their own results from there. I also use the same system to build packages for other platforms besides Linux.