Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/09/07/14:48:28
On 7 Sep 2000, at 18:38, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > > For some time now, I've been keeping my binutils port up to date using
> > > the daily diffs from Cygnus. Since the source tree is on my HD anyway,
> >
> > CVS is better tool than daily diffs for this purpose.
> Correct, but this requires a netwoking-enabled version of CVS, which is
> not yet available for DJGPP users (although it looks like libsockets will
> soon support WinSock2 well enough to make this possible).
Well, I'm using CVS under Linux only (CVS update is running at night
time from cron task when I'm away). But there are Windows binaries of
CVS which are working and have network support.
> > I don't see any special reason why one cannot use CVS to update binutils
> > sources or download daily snapshots from
> > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots/ (or one of mirror sites).
> > So I think there is NO NEED to duplicate this service somewhere else.
> Kinda depends - the diffs can fail horribly if you use patched versions of
> some files (libtool, autoconf, Cygnus configure). Also, getting a pre-DJGPP
> configured source tree is more convenient than getting the latest snapshot
> and configuring it (it may configure and build in 5 minutes on a fast Linux,
> but on DOS/Win9x the configuration alone can take more than 10 minutes).
Also, I'm rarely building binutils for DJGPP with native DJGPP
compiler. I'm mostly doing it under Linux with cross-compiler. It's
enough to write some simple script to avoid need to use long
command lines each time. There would be no problems for me to start
such script from cron task (when computer is running Linux at night,
- mostly but not always) and to upload resulting binary archive
(in form of DJGPP package) somewhere.
Andris
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