On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 5:26 AM Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/4/23 9:01 PM, Vincenzo Palazzo wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 2:54 AM Jeff Law <jeffreya...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Distro build procedures are not something the GCC project generally gets > >> involved with. > > > > I see, but to me, this do not look like a distro build procedure, > > because you can use > > with any kind of system (OSX/UNIX) by using nix. > > > But you can do the same with various other distro build procedures too? > > e.g. Gentoo Prefix allows you to install a full-blown gentoo anywhere > you like, "by using portage". > > But also by the same token, I can just install pacman or rpm or dpkg on > any system, and use the recipe executor just without requiring a > database of installed packages. > > > > I disagree with you just because my patch is not building a package > > but is just giving > > an agnostic way to develop with GCC. OFC is most useful with NixOs because > > it does not have apt or pacman or any other kind of package manager. > > > I'm not entirely sure what this statement means (unless you are saying > that nix isn't a package manager and NixOS doesn't have any package > manager)? > > But I'd actually go one step further. It looks like this "flake.nix" > file is the NixOS specific equivalent of a README.md which says "to > install the software, you must first install XX, YY, and ZZ using your > system package manager. Often they will have names such as XX-devel and > suchlike". > > Which for GCC would be https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html -- > this page actually lists a bunch of things I don't see mentioned in your > "flake.nix" file so I suspect that it won't, in fact, produce a good > development environment for developing GCC. > > I don't think it's the job of the GCC maintainers to maintain special > snowflake integrations with niche linux distros, whether those > integrations work or not. But, if it *was* the job of the GCC > maintainers, perhaps it would be better to make a script: > > `tools/setup-development-env.sh $distro` > > which could abstract away all of this for any distro, not just a niche one.
Generally we have various stuff in contrib/, one of it scripts like gcc_build. IMHO the flake.nix file (or a script to create it) could be put there as well. Richard. > > -- > Eli Schwartz >
