On 11/04/2013 11:24, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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On 09/04/2013 23:11, Omair Majid wrote:
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I would like to avoid this in the future; any tips on how to run the old
build? I couldn't get it to work last I tried (the error messages were
redirecting me to the new build).
I see Brad's reply but I think what you are looking for is actually:
make NEWBUILD=false
It's not clear how long the old build will remain on life support.
Hopefully the last few people that are still using the old build will
migrate soon so that we don't have to continue to keep it working.
This is news to me. I tried our usual IcedTea build with 8, and it just told
me I had to use the new one. So we converted.
The work we've done on system libraries for 8 we did for 6& 7 a long time ago
with the old build system, so we could add it to 8. But is there really any
point?
I don't think it's worth doing either.
Personally I think it would be good to agree and set a date, after which
there is no requirement to keep the old build "working". At the moment
it is a tax on all changes that involve change changes. I'm not even
sure that the old build generates good bits as I don't know of any
testing that is done with the old build now.
-Alan
