With bug 521140, the bootstrap scripts for prefix-rpath and prefix-standalone has been unified, only with different names: bootstrap-prefix.sh and bootstrap-rap.sh. Henceforward, the prefix-standalone has been widely tested to work on all the GNU/Linux distributions we could imagine[1]. The prefix-rpath for GNU/Linux has been less maintained and the bootstrap process is fragile. In the past several months, the most repeated suggestion in #gentoo-prefix channel for bootstrap problems on GNU/Linux was "give RAP a try". New users are easily get confused by classical Prefix vs RAP, rpath vs libc or standalone: we have too many names. Considering the status quo, my action plan is: a. Merge the Prefix/libc wiki page[1] back to Prefix[2] so that we have a central place of documentation. b. When referring ourselves, prefer a plain "Prefix" to "RAP", at least on GNU/Linux hosts. c. The bootstrap script collects user input to either make prefix-rpath or prefix-standalone, defaulting to the latter. What do you think? 1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc#Tested_distributions 2. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix Reproducible: Always
I see no drawbacks in making RAP the default for Linux hosts. I bootstrapped on OL6 and OL5 not too long ago, so perhaps we can keep the code path behind some (secret) switch. I don't think we really need to bother users with it (like LATEST_TREE=1 hacks). And of course: way to go, congrats with the good results of your hard work!
ACK: I do still have need for the rpath variant here, but I do not care about our public visible default.
Thanks a lot for your support Fabian and Michael. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/commit/?id=c79d9272b631eadd79b5e81b0f3aef887d30eb63 author Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org> 2017-12-20 17:03:13 +0900 bootstrap-prefix.sh: enable RAP on any linux-based installations.HEADmaster This can be disabled by setting envvar PREFIX_DISABLE_RAP=yes. a. done b. done c. use PREFIX_DISABLE_RAP, a hidden switch.
