[Bf-committers] Meeting Summary May 8th 2005

[Kent Mein]

In reply to Ken Hughes (khughes at pacific.edu):

> Tom M wrote:
> >Meeting Minutes May 8th
> >- we also need volunteers for building linux x86
> 
> Volunteers to do what?  Testing that we can build on
> different distros?
> 
> Ken

I'm pretty sure the request is for someone willing to be the
platform manager for linux x86.  (In charge of building the
release version making sure its built with the correct libs.)

Some other people were asking about what the heck 
 WANTED blender-build-chroot.tar.bz2 is...
I'm pretty sure this is the second thing mentioned, basically it amounts to
building a version of linux with all of the proper libs, so
you could chroot to that system and build the official release of blender, and
it would turn out right.
The biggest headache with linux is there are all these versions of libc/gcclibs
as well as other things that make it hard to have just one version of
linux x86 that will work on all platforms.

Kent
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