# [OmniOS-discuss] What do you *actually* want when you want to build illumos-gate?

Jorge Schrauwen sjorge+ml at blackdot.be
Fri Oct 10 22:01:33 UTC 2014

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    For me one and two... I can test stuff on illumos-omnos... if they seem
    good to upstream I'd love to be able to do one and two to make sure they
    don't break things.

    Regards

    Jorge

    On 2014-10-10 22:24, Dan McDonald wrote:
    > Pardon the long subject line.
    >
    > Some people have asked, "Why can't I build illumos-gate on OmniOS?"
    > It's a legitimate question, and I'm in the middle of an attempt to
    > say, "Well, now you can."
    >
    > As I'm doing this, however, I want to make sure expectations for you
    > (and for me) are properly set.  So my subject-line question stands.
    > Are you interested because:
    >
    > 	- I want to make sure my changes compile cleanly.
    >
    > 	- I want to make sure my changes lint cleanly.
    >
    > 	- I want to generate replacement binaries (e.g.
    > /kernel/drv/amd64/e1000g).
    >
    > 	- I want to generate packages to ONU on my OmniOS box.
    >
    > 	- More?
    >
    > I can answer now with my take on the above.
    >
    > - I want to make sure my changes compile.
    > I believe I have this working now.  It will require some .env file
    > hacking on an OmniOS build box, but I will include a sample when I
    > upstream.
    >
    > - I want to make sure my changes lint cleanly.
    > Not yet, but there's a set of changes ALREADY in OmniOS (like the
    > already in use java ones for this project) that may need to show up in
    > illumos-gate as well.
    >
    > - I want to generate replacement binaries.
    > You should be able to do this.  And if you build small (per
    > http://kebesays.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-illumos-newbies-on-developing-small.html),
    > you probably already could more a good chunk of binaries.
    >
    > - I want to generate packages to ONU on my OmniOS box.
    > This will be REALLY hard. If you really want to do this, I'd just use
    > illumos-omnios.
    >
    > - More?
    > I'm all ears for now.
    >
    >
    > Before I go any further along, I want to make sure I'm solving
    > people's problems, or that they are, indeed, solvable.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Dan
    >
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