[ros-diffs] [dreimer] 36968: ok, Binutils and ccache reverted.

[Dmitry Gorbachev]

Hi!

Why not use newer GCC 4.3.2 and Binutils 2.19.50 in RosBE, they seems to 
work well with only a few changes in ReactOS sources.

[Daniel Reimer]

Dmitry Gorbachev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Why not use newer GCC 4.3.2 and Binutils 2.19.50 in RosBE, they seems to
> work well with only a few changes in ReactOS sources.
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
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> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

Because it would fully break the possibility to build older revs. I dont 
know if this counts as argument. Ask the others ;-)

[Grant Brady]

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Daniel Reimer wrote:
> Dmitry Gorbachev wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Why not use newer GCC 4.3.2 and Binutils 2.19.50 in RosBE, they seems to
> > work well with only a few changes in ReactOS sources.
> >
> > Ros-dev mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>
> Because it would fully break the possibility to build older revs. I dont
> know if this counts as argument. Ask the others ;-)
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It would see to me that if you wanted to build an older version you'd
just check out an older version of RosBE. Isn't that kinda the point
of SVN?
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[Colin Finck]

Grant Brady wrote:
> It would see to me that if you wanted to build an older version you'd
> just check out an older version of RosBE. Isn't that kinda the point
> of SVN?

SVN only contains the RosBE scripts, not the actual build tools as this
would blow up the tree badly.

So you really need to download an older finished RosBE version from SF.net
or any other location or you integrate the older build tools in your current
RosBE. Both solutions are quite simple.

Best regards,

Colin

[Colin Finck]

Dmitry Gorbachev wrote:
> Why not use newer GCC 4.3.2 and Binutils 2.19.50 in RosBE, 
> they seems to 
> work well with only a few changes in ReactOS sources.

Well, we want to upgrade to newer GCC versions for some time now, but one
long-time blocker was PSEH if I recall correctly.

If the current tree really builds 100% with GCC 4.3.2 or you (or someone
else) could provide patches for getting it to work, the update should be
done as soon as possible (but after 0.3.7 :P)
Being unable to build older revs is really not an argument here, we also
didn't pay attention to this when we did the last upgrade from 3.4.5 to
4.1.3. Besides, I just needed to save the "3.4.5" directory from RosBE 0.3.4
and I can simply integrate it into newer RosBE versions.

But why shall we switch to a newer binutils version right now?
2.19.x versions are still snapshots from what I know and I don't expect
drastic changes anyway (compared to GCC).

Best regards,

Colin