[Bf-committers] Re: chroot environment files for Linux compile (D.J. Capelis)

[Rui Campos]

Anyone who wants to access it, mail me and I will send the link, to avoid
massive downloads of an already large file, specially from those who
really dunno what that is for.

Thanks,

-- Rui --

PS: Jacques, mail has been sent to you.

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
>
> I would also like to get access to the chroot environment, it may be
> the perfect place to figure out all the issues with static linking and
> CMake. Is it not maybe a good idea to start a tracker for it using
> Bittorrent if a couple of people want to get it (even in its current
> state, before you do the cleanup)?
>
> Jacques
>
> On 12/12/06, Rui Campos <rcampos at fusemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi D.J. Capelis,
>>
>> I will setup an ftp account where you can upload the chroot, this way it
>> can be shared with everyone else that wants to tackle it.
>>
>> I already have scons changed to compile with FFMPEG statically, having
>> also support for x264, xvid, aac, mp3. It takes 2 additional Mb. But I
>> wanted to have it tested with some builds made available at
>> BlenderBuilds,
>> before providing the patch.
>> Well, if anyone wants the patches I can share ;) .
>>
>> I also added static libgettext and libfreetype support to the files
>> along
>> with other additional static stuff, like openal ....
>>
>> My idea would be to clean this chroot a bit (dunno if possible for the
>> next release), specially considering ffmpeg and some other dependencies
>> that seems to show trouble.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- Rui --
>>
>> > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:52:45 -0800
>> > From: "D.J. Capelis" <djcapelis at gmail.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] chroot environment files for Linux
>> >       compile
>> > To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at projects.blender.org>
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 00:36 +0000, Rui Campos wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> Can anyone provide me a link to the latest chroot files that are used
>> for the official compilation ?
>> >>
>> >> I wanted to try it out for a BlenderBuilds compile.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> -- Rui --
>> >
>> > The current chroot used to generate release binaries is currently a
>> hacked up debian system that's in a pretty messy state.  (At least for
>> 32-bit linux/x86, the other linux chroots are a bit cleaner because of a
>> slightly lessened need to support a stunning array of incompatible
>> systems.)  The easiest way to get it is to bother me on IRC (privmsg
>> DJCapelis and I'll get back to you when I get to the right computer) so
>> I can tar it up and DCC it to you as it's 2.4GB uncompressed.  (Could
>> probably be slimmed down considerably, there's a lot of cruft in there
>> that I could clean out.)
>> >
>> > There's a script in there that does the compilation except for the
>> parts
>> that don't work (like the fact that FFMPEG (I believe it was FFMPEG?)
>> doesn't build with scons, which causes me no end of trouble...) and
>> there's currently some linking issues with different python versions
>> because the python folks don't bother to enforce an ABI... but other
>> than that it mostly works.
>> >
>> > Anyone who else who wants to grab the chroot and tackle some of the
>> outstanding issues in it is welcome to, time has been an issue lately so
>> it would be good to have this thing spread a bit more broadly as I'm in
>> and out of contact.  (My blender folder is running at about 1,529 unread
>> messages these days. :( )
>> >
>> > ~D.J.
>>
>>
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