[M3devel] FreeBSD4 update on releng branch failed

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

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> ok should be better now, I only tested LINUXLIBC6 5.4.0 to current.
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> I can look at and fix more later.
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> But this is "controversial" stuff and has to end somewhere.

Jay, no need to do more. I didn't mean that you should start fixing
immediately; my mail was just to document the fact in the lists.

Once 5.8 is out we can forget about older releases, too, I think.

Olaf

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>  - Jay
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> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: wagner at elegosoft.com; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:56:35 +0000
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] FreeBSD4 update on releng branch failed
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> oops looks like I deleted my fixes.
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>  - Jay
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> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: wagner at elegosoft.com; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:54:04 +0000
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] FreeBSD4 update on releng branch failed
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> I can build current release from LINUXLIBC6 release 5.4.0 now.
> Some of the fixes are applicable to PPC_LINUX.
> I can test it against an older release.
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> I could probably easily make it work back to older versions and more targets.
>  I had removed some of the workarounds, but they were fairly clean.
>  Stuff like not using -m32 on older cm3cg, etc.
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> You cannot build current m3core/libm3 with old cm3 or old cm3cg.
> I used "upgrade.py" which foists current config files on older   
> compiler, and, you know, doesn't build m3core/libm3 until after it   
> has a current compiler.
>
>  - Jay
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> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: wagner at elegosoft.com; m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: RE: [M3devel] FreeBSD4 update on releng branch failed
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:46:49 +0000
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>  > It is not possible to update directly from older versions.
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> Maybe nice to "fix".
> I'll try to get to it.
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>   - Jay
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>> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:18:12 +0100
>> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] FreeBSD4 update on releng branch failed
>>
>> Quoting Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com>:
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>> > Yesterday I've finally added a Hudson slave again for the   
>> FreeBSD4 platform.
>> > But I don't seem to be able to upgrade to the current head of the
>> > release branch even with the upgrade script:
>> >
>> >   
>> http://hudson.modula3.com:8080/view/FreeBSD4/job/cm3-build-FreeBSD4/77/console
>> >
>> > What do I miss?
>>
>> FYI
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>> The update to the current release branch tip of 5.8 requires an RC4
>> build as an intermediate step. It is not possible to update directly from
>> older versions.
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>> This has been confirmed on FreeBSD4 and PPC_LINUX.
>>
>> Olaf
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