[M3devel] upgrade fails with compilation error in m3quake

[Olaf Wagner]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:03:00 -0600
"Rodney M. Bates" <rodney_bates at lcwb.coop> wrote:

> It looks like a bootstrap barrier.  My installed compiler does not complain.
> The first argument has type LONGCARD, declared at m3-libs/libm3/src/os/Common/File.i3:34
> This was changed from CARDINAL in 2010, no doubt to handle big files on 32-bit systems.
> The compiler was changed to allow this at similar time.
> 
> I made changes to the failing code in QScanner in June of 2014, but it would have had
> the same failure even before.
> 
> I'm not sure of the easiest way to proceed.  Figuring out what the intermediate step
> would be could be tedious.  You might consider just editing the type in File.i3
> to CARDINAL temporarily, to build a compiler, then change it back and recompile with
> that.  But then, there could possibly be other such problems.
> 
> But in general, we should have an upgrade procedure that anybody can use, starting with
> the release compiler, and no such manual stuff.  I suppose trying to compile the
> current libm3 before the current compiler is the source of the problem.  Can you easily
> recompile the compiler with your old libraries?   We seem to have had some bootstrap
> barriers that require doing the libraries before the compiler and others the other
> way around, which makes having a general procedure problematic.

Perhaps I should give up on upgrading this old 32-bit FreeBSD system and
just try to setup a current cm3 on another system at Elego. I just started
it because there seemed to be a still working version.

It's probably not worth the efforts.

Thanks for your help anyway; I'll try to download something newer for booting
from github.

Olaf

> Any ideas, Jay?
> 
> On 11/19/2015 01:42 PM, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> > Anybody feels guilty?
> > Or do I just need an intermediate step now to upgrade from a compiler
> > from 2009?
> >
> > === package m3-sys/m3quake ===
> >   +++ cm3 -build -DROOT='/home/wagner/work/cm3-github-ssh' $RARGS  && cm3 -ship $RARGS -DROOT='/home/wagner/work/cm3-github-ssh'  +++
> > --- building in FreeBSD4 ---
> >
> > ignoring ../src/m3overrides
> >
> > new source -> compiling Quake.i3
> > new source -> compiling QCompiler.i3
> > new source -> compiling QCode.i3
> > new source -> compiling QValue.i3
> > new source -> compiling QVSeq.i3
> > new source -> compiling QVTbl.i3
> > new source -> compiling QVal.i3
> > new source -> compiling QPromise.i3
> > new source -> compiling QPromiseSeq.i3
> > new source -> compiling QMachine.i3
> > new source -> compiling QToken.i3
> > new source -> compiling QIdent.i3
> > new source -> compiling Quake.m3
> > new source -> compiling QToken.m3
> > new source -> compiling QIdent.m3
> > new source -> compiling QScanner.i3
> > new source -> compiling QScanner.m3
> > "../src/QScanner.m3", line 47: VAL: first argument must be an INTEGER
> > 1 error encountered
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> 
> -- 
> Rodney Bates
> rodney.m.bates at acm.org


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