OSL Powerdev Environment
Submitted by ramereth on Fri, 2007-10-26 22:02.
Our current development environment for the Power5 uses Gentoo Linux as the build linux distribution with a little bit of hardened magic to go with it.
Here's a small list of the relevant packages that we have installed on all powerdev machines. If you want to see a full list for yourself run the following command: qlist -ICv on the machine you're on.
Notables
- glibc-2.6.1
- sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.23
Editors
- emacs-22.1
- nano-2.0.2
- vim-7.1.042
Java
- ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2.9
- ibm-jdk-bin-1.5.0.5a
Revision control / Patch management
- subversion-1.3.2
- git-1.5.2.5
- cvs-1.12.12
- patchutils-0.2.30
- quilt-0.45
Gentoo specific tools
- gentoolkit-0.2.3
- portage-utils-0.1.28
Misc tools
- mc-4.6.1 (midnight commander)
- screen-4.0.3
- fakeroot-1.5.10
We're still working on adding some additional packages / features which will help with development. Some of these include the following:
- Slotted versions of gcc 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3
- Recompile gcc to include gcj and objc*
- Slotted versions of python 2.4 and 2.5
- Addition gentoo-specific development packages
- Latest Ruby
- clisp
- Sane chroot environment
