| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 2 | 8 October 2001 | rjh - [email protected] |
| Changed title to "Darwin Committer". | ||
| Revision 1 | 1 May 2001 | rb - [email protected] |
| Created. | ||
Abstract
Darwin's build system builds new packages within a chroot'ed environment consisting entirely of previously built packages. For example, building a new version of xnu installs all the components needed for building xnu, into a chrooted environment, and then starts building xnu in that chrooted environment. Obviously, this leads to a paradox, since you'll need existing packages before you can build anything with this system. Luckily, I have prepared packages for the entire Darwin 1.2 distribution and have made them available at http://www.darwinfo.org/pub/darwin/built/. You do not need to install these packages. They are used by the build process in their packaged form.
Table of Contents
When building packages, the Darwin build system uses the Tools/buildtools from the Darwin cvs repository. You should check out the latest version and install it before attempting to use the build system. The current system uses a series of perl scripts around the dpkg format, that is why all the packages are .deb. The scripts used are darwin-buildpackage and darwin-buildall. These scripts use the perl modules Dpkg/Package/Builder.pm and Dpkg/Package/Manifest.pm. All these files are included in the buildtools that you should have checked out and installed already.