Unstable development, guile 1.8 and gcc 4.5.2

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

[snip]
> What do you think ? Which solution would be preferable and realistic
> (in terms of effort vs gain) ?

I think it would be cool if there were some way in the 'branch' to say
what build system is required.  Then we could effectively do:

- checkout branch/tag
- run "the buildsys requires script from the checkout"
- build the checkout

Perhaps we would need to have a local mapping of buildsys names to local
paths, but this would make it future-proof.  If we require additional
build environments we just install them side-by-side, create a global
name and extend the local map, and then we just declare which buildsys
we need to use.

> Geert
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621238
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615168

Keep in mind that tag build always rebuild all dependencies from
scratch, so this approach would work.

Similarly, if we were going to set up a daily or weekly "branch build"
then we would need a separate checkout and could certainly have a
separate set of dependencies there, too.

-derek
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