[M3devel] LONGCARD, release branch... A R G H

[Tony Hosking]

Hi Dragisa,

I too am a luddite and have never used any of Jay's scripts.  I even still have essentially the same *old* monolithic config files on my system.

Here is the general strategy.

Take an old release.


Compile and ship the following in order...

m3middle
m3objfile
m3linker
m3back
m3front
m3quake
cm3

You now have a *new* compiler in cm3/TARGET/cm3 linked against the *old* libraries (m3core, libm3, sysutils).

Now, compile and ship new libraries using the new compiler...

m3core
libm3
sysutils

And build a new compiler against the new libraries...

m3middle
m3objfile
m3linker
m3back
m3front
m3quake
cm3

You now have a *new* compiler in cm3/TARGET/cm3 linked against the *new* libraries.

You should now be able to rebuild everything using the new compiler.


Hope this helps!

-- Tony

(PS  Let me know if you have any problems with this.   I have a feeling there are some tweaks I have made to the m3makefiles to make this go through smoothly.)


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On 21 Feb 2010, at 10:17, Dragiša Durić wrote:

> Can you PLEASE enable other people to use this system, TOO. As we once
> used it, before all this moving-target-****??????
> 
> PLEASE, I just need minimal compiler runtime so I can use STANDARD
> scripts and PROCEDURES so I can use my RPM packaging I HAD TO REINVENT
> and RECODE every single time you found it INTERESTING and FUNNY to
> CHANGE ALL OVER????!!!
> 
> And I thought I am INSIDE of this development process. Do we really
> think other people will not be bored by our
> change-it-all-again-and-again games??? Do I have to spend some fixed
> weekly time on this list so I won't miss LATEST and GREATEST IDEAS and
> PRACTICES?
> 
> Sorry for all this "screaming" but I am really dissapointed to see all
> this changed AGAIN! What do you people think potentital users of this
> systems are?? And what measure of torturing people are ready to endure
> along the way?
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 12:57 +0000, Jay K wrote:
>> ./upgrade.py && ./do-cm3-std.py realclean skipgcc && ./do-cm3-std.py
>> buildship skipgcc 
> -- 
> Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>

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