11:40 a.m.
Hi,
It's been apparent for a while that the autobuilder needs some
improvement. This is particularly obvious when rolling a new major
release.
I've started gathering requirements together on the wiki:
http://wiki.netsurf-browser.org/autobuilder-requirements
I'd appreciate it if anyone else who has requirements here can add them
to that page.
J.
6:37 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:40 +0100, John-Mark Bell wrote:
Hi,
It's been apparent for a while that the autobuilder needs some
improvement. This is particularly obvious when rolling a new major
release.
I've started gathering requirements together on the wiki:
http://wiki.netsurf-browser.org/autobuilder-requirements
I'd appreciate it if anyone else who has requirements here can add them
to that page.
Further to this, I'd like to know what the state of cross-compilation
toolchains is for BeOS/Haiku and AmigaOS 4.
J.
12:35 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:37:22 +0100, John-Mark Bell wrote:
> It's been apparent for a while that the autobuilder needs
some
> improvement. This is particularly obvious when rolling a new major
> release.
> I'd appreciate it if anyone else who has requirements here can add them
> to that page.
Further to this, I'd like to know what the state of cross-compilation
toolchains is for BeOS/Haiku and AmigaOS 4.
All I can tell you, is there is some way to cross-compile for OS4 but
I have no idea how.
Is the autobuilder the thingy which runs on the website to do the
nightly builds?
I can do some digging on the cross-compilation issue if you like?
Chris
12:38 p.m.
On 23 Apr 2009 18:35:01 +0100
"Chris Young" <chris.young(a)unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> wrote:
All I can tell you, is there is some way to cross-compile for OS4
but
I have no idea how.
Is the autobuilder the thingy which runs on the website to do the
nightly builds?
We build every 15 minutes, if there was an svn check-in. If we built
these on octopus.pepperfish.net, it could almost be worth
building /ever/ revision.
I can do some digging on the cross-compilation issue if you like?
That'd be cool; then we can roll releases automatically and at the same
time.
12:54 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:38:44 +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> I can do some digging on the cross-compilation issue if you
like?
That'd be cool; then we can roll releases automatically and at the same
time.
I thought I'd seen an article somewhere:
http://utilitybase.com/article/show/2007/06/23/231/Installing+an+AmigaOS+...
(NB: there was a virus issue with that website recently, I believe it
has been cleared, but might be safer to use NetSurf or otherwise have
JavaScript switched off)
Hopefully that is still correct - the OS4 SDK link will be wrong, but
the new one is in the same place.
netsurf/amiga/version.rexx will probably need to be rewritten in perl
or something - it creates a file like the attached. The 7210 comes
from the SVN revision - Amiga revision numbers have to be increased on
each build to allow version-compare copying and the SVN revision
number is the most sensible one to use.
Chris
4:12 p.m.
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 18:38 +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote:
On 23 Apr 2009 18:35:01 +0100
"Chris Young" <chris.young(a)unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> wrote:
> All I can tell you, is there is some way to cross-compile for OS4 but
> I have no idea how.
>
> Is the autobuilder the thingy which runs on the website to do the
> nightly builds?
We build every 15 minutes, if there was an svn check-in. If we built
these on octopus.pepperfish.net, it could almost be worth
building /ever/ revision.
Whatever is most sane -- fwiw, my long-term goal is for this to build
for every target using every permutation of the build options so we know
that the build isn't broken. Obviously, we'll need a way of excepting
certain platforms from certain permutations, but still, it'll be useful.
> I can do some digging on the cross-compilation issue if you
like?
That'd be cool; then we can roll releases automatically and at the same
time.
There's that, too. I'm less interested in cross-compiling releases. That
said, the current release procedure is too time consuming.
J.
12:49 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:37:22 +0100, John-Mark Bell wrote:
> > It's been apparent for a while that the autobuilder needs some
> > improvement. This is particularly obvious when rolling a new
> > major
> > release.
> > I'd appreciate it if anyone else who has requirements here can
> > add them
> > to that page.
>
> Further to this, I'd like to know what the state of cross-
> compilation
> toolchains is for BeOS/Haiku and AmigaOS 4.
All I can tell you, is there is some way to cross-compile for OS4 but
I have no idea how.
Is the autobuilder the thingy which runs on the website to do the
nightly builds?
I can do some digging on the cross-compilation issue if you like?
Well for Haiku we do have linux (and OSX or even cygwin) cross-
compilation support and do use it a lot.
We even have a build factory that makes nightly builds :
http://haiku-files.org/
It's possible to add external apps to the Haiku build but it uses Jam.
Still it shouldn't be too hard to reuse the generated cross gcc & tools
from make, but I never tried.
I don't think it's worth trying for BeOS (and Haiku builds will give
lots of indices bout the BeOS one).
François.
4:14 p.m.
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 19:49 +0200, François Revol wrote:
Well for Haiku we do have linux (and OSX or even cygwin) cross-
compilation support and do use it a lot.
We even have a build factory that makes nightly builds :
http://haiku-files.org/
It's possible to add external apps to the Haiku build but it uses Jam.
Still it shouldn't be too hard to reuse the generated cross gcc & tools
from make, but I never tried.
Ok. Thanks for that. Do you have a pointer to the toolchain?
I don't think it's worth trying for BeOS (and Haiku builds
will give
lots of indices bout the BeOS one).
Sure.
J.
4:19 p.m.
>
> Still it shouldn't be too hard to reuse the generated cross gcc &
> tools
> from make, but I never tried.
Ok. Thanks for that. Do you have a pointer to the toolchain?
No, it's built by the configure script when setting up the build
system.
I'm not sure it's safe to just zip up linux bins from one machine to
another like on sane OSes...
François.
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