[M3devel] Providing some current CM3 bootstrap archives, was: Re: m3cg build failure on powerpc

[Jay]

Blech, so much duplication.. oops/sorry.I'll make a new Windows archive and put it in my user directory on m3.elegosoft.com.
64 bit integer support will have to wait.
I assume we are in a "release push" here?
I COULD if really necessary do about any x86 Linux (maybe x86 Solaris, don't think it is supported) or PowerPC Linux or PowerPC Darwin..in a virtual machine if nothing else..
 
> for Linux (perhaps multiple distros, too, there?)
Oh for just a bit of compatibility... :)
 
> 1. Check out the current CVS head> 2. Copy your (working) configuration file to cm3/src/config/<TARGET>> 3. Adapt the installer configuration file if necessary in> cminstall/src/config/<TARGET>. Make sure that all system libraries> get dynamically linked, for instance.> 4. scripts/upgrade.sh> 5. scripts/make-bin-dist-min.sh
Hey! :)
 
 1. Checkout current CVS head. 
 2. cminstall/src/config/NT386 should work for everyone. 
 3. ditto 
 4. scripts/win/upgrade.cmd 
 5. scripts/win/make-dist.cmd. 
 
I'm just being obnoxious. :)
 
Oh btw, anyone want to make an executive decision on a minor detail?
  .zip or .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or self expanding .zip in an .exe?
  make-dist.cmd is setup to make any of these.
  I don't know how to make a self expanding .tar.gz or .tar.bz2...though should be easy, perhaps not with the following feature:
  The .exes can either be run, or can be used as direct input to unzip, or renamed to .zip and probably opened with Windows Explorer.
  It's pretty neat.
   .tar.bz2 is always the smallest in my experience and that's what I left make-dist.cmd doing.
   .tar.gz is usually in the middle. 
  .zip usually largest, though more efficient for extracting less than the whole archive -- the files are compressed individually instead of compressing the entire stream at once.
   Self expanding .zip adds a small fixed constant prefix.
 
I wonder if cminstall can be "better" on Unix, comparable to it being gone on Windows, but I don't care.
You know, either make it unnecessary or make it totally automatic. I know it tries to figure out the defaults. I don't know how correct it tends to be.
 
Oh and then a really obvious obnoxious question is if we should be building .debs, .rpms, Mac .pkg/.img/.dmg etc..
Personally I don't mind the lowest tech current approach. Slackware anyone? :) (I used it in the Linux kernel 1.x time, which is when most of my Linux use ever was..)
 - Jay



> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:03:31 +0100> From: wagner at elegosoft.com> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com> CC: m3-support at elegosoft.com; admins at elegosoft.com> Subject: [M3devel] Providing some current CM3 bootstrap archives, was: Re: m3cg build failure on powerpc/darwin> > Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:> > A break is always good. :-)> > Hi again,> > after some hours of sleep I can report at least some success on> my old Darwin installation. I've put the archives on our web server> for public access, and would like to add some more.> > I still think a Darwin build on a newer system may be a good idea (we> can offer both on our web pages), and we definitely need some> for Linux (perhaps multiple distros, too, there?)> Solaris and Darwin/i386 would be great, too, and NetBSD, and of> course Windows. Mika offered to provide an archive for old FreeBSD> distributions (4.x).> > So everybody who is willing to produce some installation archives,> please let me know, and I'll make sure they get shipped to our> server.> > Please note that for the scripts/make-bin-dist-min.sh to work,> you need a sample configuration file in cm3/m3-sys/cm3/src/config/XXX,> as the ones in cminstall/src/config must be processed by the installer> first. Jay has removed the samples there a little bit too eagerly,> but most where outdated anyway.> > To upgrade from an older compiler I have successfully used the> upgrade.sh script. So the complete sequence to build a bootstrap> on your favourite platform would be:> > 1. Check out the current CVS head> 2. Copy your (working) configuration file to cm3/src/config/<TARGET>> 3. Adapt the installer configuration file if necessary in> cminstall/src/config/<TARGET>. Make sure that all system libraries> get dynamically linked, for instance.> 4. scripts/upgrade.sh> 5. scripts/make-bin-dist-min.sh> > Any help will be appreciated.> > Thanks in advance,> > Olaf> -- > Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH> Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany> phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95> http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin> Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194> 
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