can not build PCC & binutils with manual configuration

[jetlan]

I follow the build guide at ​http://trac.helenos.org/wiki/UsersGuide/CompilingFromSource. I got latest code by bzr command.

I run "make distclean && make config" then filled all question mark item and checked pcc & binutils. I check Makefile.config the CONFIG_PCC = y & CONFIG_BINUTILS = y

Then run "make -C release release PROFILES=ia32" However the final ISO image in release directory doesn't include pcc & binutils. I check /var/tmp/helenos/HelenOS-0.4.3/Makefile.config. But the CONFIG_PCC = n and CONFIG_BINUTILS = n

I guess the make system don't copy Makefile.config to $(EXPORT_DIR). But it create a one for it.

[Jakub Jermář]

I am afraid you misunderstood what make release does. It does not use the normal configuration, but one from the profile. So if you want to make a profile, which automatically includes pcc and binutils, you need to create one. Take a look e.g. in defaults sparc64 to see how to specify a profile with non-default settings.

There is also one caveat with the choice of the root fs. Now when mkfat.py support LFN, we can enable pcc and binutils also for FAT.

[Jiri Svoboda]

Updated the guide to make it more clear. For building release files this is exactly what we want. And we should not tweak the profiles locally before a release either. It should work in the upstream.