[M3devel] unnecessary relinks when import libs change

Olaf Wagner wagner at elegosoft.com
Sat Feb 23 18:40:25 CET 2008


Quoting Jay <jayk123 at hotmail.com>:

> On Windows I occasionally start over from 5.1.8.
> 5.1.3 would work but sysutils can't be compiled against its runtime.
> I was going to see about booting from 4.1 or 3.6 but I figure no go   
> for the same reason.

That's probably because modules have been added to m3core and libm3.

> I've asked but no answer as to what people think about buildability   
> with older tools.
> Probably it's not a valuable battle, otherwise progress is blocked.

I don't think it's worth the efforts to try to remain boot-compatible
with all older versions of M3. We can still use cross-compilation
if there's dire need.

Olaf
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