Build system - how to ?

[TGS]

Thanks for the link on Fedora Extras.

As far as Fedora Core is concerned, does that mean that no body can 
see, understand, or even reproduce the Fedora Core build process, 
beehive? That does not seem too Open Source to me.


On Jul 5, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 19:03 -0400, TGS wrote:
>> Where can I find information on the build system for Fedora?
>
> The build system for Fedora _Core_ is called beehive, and is internal 
> to
> Red Hat.  It's not publicly available, nor would it likely be all that
> useful to the average package builder.
>
> The build system for Fedora _Extras_, where more and more packages are
> migrating to, is described at this page:
>
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras
>
> New build system infrastructure for Extras is coming along which, when
> python stops segfaulting with m2crypto & threads, will hopefully ease
> the Extras package build process quite a bit.
>
> Dan
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