[ptxdist] Application Development on Ptxdist based OS's

[Erwin Rol <mailinglists@erwinrol.com>]

Hey all,

a while back I asked if it was possible to split an ptxdist build in two 
parts, one for the (stable) OS and one for the application. On that 
question I got some interesting answers that made me wonder;
How do others do their application development on ptxdist?

 From origin Ptxdist is a distribution building tool, so it assumes all 
applications are finished and combines all parts in a running 
distribution. And it does a great job, I really can't complain about that.

But what if the applications are still in development, they need to be 
edited, cross-compiled, debugged. And there is where Ptxdist is not so 
great, at least that's my experience.

So how do other people do that ?

I read some ppl just don't use Ptxdist at all and just compile their 
applications in a different way and "install" them on the finished 
Ptxdist OS. But that duplicates the whole cross-chain stuff, like 
compiler, libraries and headers.

I have seen other build systems that seem to export some "API" for use 
by applications developers. Maybe something like that can be done with 
Ptxdist too, for example exporting the sysroot-target directory and use 
that to build applications.

Anny other people with wild ideas and nice custom Ptxdist enhancements 
that they want to share ?

- Erwin





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