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Re: Setting up a developer environment

 

On 03/04/17 10:48, Andrew Penkrat wrote:
> Some time ago I've successfully set up a development environment in a
> libertine container.
> As far as I remember libertine-container-manager creates chroot by
> default, but can optionally use LXD as well (which didn't work for me
> though).

That makes sense as an approach.

>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 at 11:42 Alan Griffiths <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 03/04/17 06:58, amon wrote:
>>>
>>>     I need to put a full GNUStep developer environment on it. What
>>>     is the current best way to do this, ie get into a dselect or
>>>     an apt-get to pull in clang, libgnustep and friends, debian
>>>     package scripts, etc. In other words, a normal debian developer
>>>     environment.
>>>
>>>     Is there a HowTo out there for this?
>     ...
>
>>     No replies so far. What is the current best practice? Can I
>>     just get into a Terminal, su root and install gcc, clang,
>>     libgnu* and the rest? 
>
>     I've not replied as this is not something I've looked into
>     recently (see /3/ below). But...
>
>     /0/ Assuming you're basing this on the released, "click" based
>     system image...
>
>     /1/ If you start updating the image by installing s/w into you'll
>     be "on your own" as the "click" installation and update mechanism
>     isn't designed to support this.
>
>     /2/ When I last looked I wrote these notes:
>     https://accu.org/index.php/journals/2158
>
>     /3/ I think the current kernel now supports LDX containers. If
>     this is true, it is probably a better approach than the chroot
>     used in /2/.
>
>     HTH
>
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