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

[Tony Hosking]

What does an installation archive consist of?  I've not used an  
install archive for several years, since I just bootstrap from my  
existing installs.

On Dec 17, 2007, at 6:03 AM, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> 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 but most where outdated anyway.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
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