Projected Build on Ubuntu 12.04

[Andrew Springer]

I can understand why there is a requirement to have a 64 bit OS with so much RAM when building ChromiumOS, but is there some sort of a software dependency reason for why there is a recommendation to build on Ubuntu 10.04 rather than 12.04?

Just wondering if it is worth me struggling with a bunch of drivers for a system that I will only be using to build another OS.

[Chris Masone]

Until recently, our workstations at Google were Lucid-based, so that was all we actively supported.  Now, they're Precise-based, so that is supported, but the docs haven't been updated.

On Oct 2, 2012 9:21 PM, "Andrew Springer" <andrew.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can understand why there is a requirement to have a 64 bit OS with so much RAM when building ChromiumOS, but is there some sort of a software dependency reason for why there is a recommendation to build on Ubuntu 10.04 rather than 12.04?

Just wondering if it is worth me struggling with a bunch of drivers for a system that I will only be using to build another OS.

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[Andrew Springer]

That was a crazy fast response. Thank you for that.

[Mike Frysinger]

Chris is of course correct, and i'm not disagreeing with what he said.  but building ChromiumOS should work fine on any x86_64 Linux system running a 2.6.9+ kernel.

-mike

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Andrew Springer <andrew.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can understand why there is a requirement to have a 64 bit OS with so much RAM when building ChromiumOS, but is there some sort of a software dependency reason for why there is a recommendation to build on Ubuntu 10.04 rather than 12.04?

Just wondering if it is worth me struggling with a bunch of drivers for a system that I will only be using to build another OS.

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[Andrew Springer]

Makes my work all the easier. Thanks you guys!

[Chris Masone]

it _should_ but we've run into various issues around system tools not quite working as expected.  I mean, we had to work around a couple of unexpected behaviors moving from Lucid to Precise.  I think the newer version of sudo did a few things a little differently, for example.  So it's more that the build tools might have a few hiccups on platforms that we don't support.  Not so much that compiling won't work :-)