On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:31:32PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote:
> djgoku wrote:
>> On 8/24/07, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Can one reliably compile 4.0 release patches on a 4.1 release system?
>>>
>>
>> Is there some patches that aren't in 4.1? If so that seem really weird
>> why it wouldn't be. Can you give an example?
>>
>
> In my network I have 4.0 and 4.1 systems. I'm upgrading the 4.0 to 4.1, but
> in the mean time, if a patch is released, can I use my 4.1 build system to
> build a 4.0 patch using 4.0 sources?
>
> FYI, I change DESTDIR in order to capture only the updated binaries. Then I
> make a binary patch with what was installed in $DESTDIR.
>
> The reason for this is that I can use a single build machine running the
> current release, and two source trees, current and previous.
>
> Hopefully that explains my intentions more succinctly.
This doesn't work [1], but you can run a virtual machine in qemu,
dual-boot, or set up a second build machine.
Joachim
[1] Well, it usually does, but it can break in interesting ways that are
difficult to fix.
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