[OLPC library] [Re] 'OLPC-Health' takes off !!

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:

> GT.M is bootstrapped.  Just like you need a gcc to build a gcc, only the
> dependency is not as strong.  Remember that GT.M is both a language and a
> database, and so bootstrapping is not an unreasonable requirement.

Sounds reasonable.  I'm willing to go the bootstrapping path - but I
have to do it from scratch without a running GT.M.

> But, in any case, this is outside my expertise.  I will take this up with
> the developers and get back to you.  Since I am traveling, I may not close
> the loop till early next week.

Fine.

> Out of curiosity, are you compiling GT.M as a matter of principle or because
> the OLPC does not have an i686 instruction set?  The binaries that we
> provide have gone through extensive testing whereas the binaries that you
> build will not have the same testing.

I would like to build Debian packages to include GT.M into the Debian
GNU Linux distribution.  I don't know whether you remember that we met
at OSHCA in London 2001.  We had a short discussion about Debian-Med.
The Debian-Med project just tries to include medical software into Debian.
To build a Debian package you are not allowed to relay on precompiled
binaries and have to build everything from source.  Dispite the discussion
came up on the OLPC list it has nothing to do with OLPC development in
principle (except that we try to share some packaging effort and it
might be that once Debian (and thus Debian-Med) might run on an OLPC.

Thanks for your quick response

           Andreas.
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