* Steve Isaacs yasteve@gmail.com [071203 19:32]:
- Buildrom be enhanced to --optionally-- download and install in a
user's sandbox a toolchain builder.
I don't think buildrom is the place for this. It's pretty much out of the scope for the project.
Next time a distribution ships a broken glibc, we start adding that, too. If you use a distribution with a broken toolchain, you should visit http://kegel.com/crosstool/ and build a new toolchain _once_.
I agree we should have an FAQ entry to point people to crosstool though.
- Problems found in the toolchain builder be fed back to the toolchain
builder project thus satisfying Jordan's point of having a responsibility to fix the toolset when broken. Crosstool builders often employ target specific patches when necessary.
We also need feedback on our own bugs and issues before or while we start looking in other directions. We have a fully working test system that nobody is using anymore: http://www.linuxbios.org/Distributed_and_Automated_Testsystem If you have supported nodes, that you do not need anymore, please contact me for putting them into the test system.
Also, we should try to merge autobuild and buildrom. I never understood why a new tool was build instead of enhancing an already existing one. qa.linuxbios.org is fully using abuild. We drop a couple of potential problems if we start using one solution for building linuxbios.