This is the same problem, more or less, as gcc versions >= 4.3.
We have a buildbot for it but it's usually red.  :(
It's hard to fix, when you've done a check-in that breaks some
compiler that you don't have access to...

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Erik Kay <erik...@chromium.org> wrote:
> It sounds like we need a vs2008 buildbot.
> Erik
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Mike Belshe <mbel...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can we change this so that you have to opt-in to vs2008?
>> I have vs2008 on my system, but I never really wanted to use it for
>> chrome.  It's just that gyp automatically switched me to it.
>>
>> The vs2008 build seems to be subject to many more errors than the vs2005
>> system.  I suspect this is due to low developer use and that it's not what
>> we run on the bbots, right?  Over the past few months, I've probably lost
>> more than a week of developer time due to vs2008 problems.  I don't want
>> other engineers to have to go through that unless they opt-in.
>> Mike
>>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Sverrir Á. Berg <sver...@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> GYP detects if you have VS2008 installed and defaults to
>>> that over 2005.  To force 2005 set this in your environment before building:
>>> GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2005
>>> If you don't have 2008 installed:
>>> * close visual studio (important)
>>> * revert changes to build files you might have locally
>>> * gclient sync
>>> * gclient runhooks --force
>>> * build again
>>> Sverrir
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Book'em Dano <daniel.c...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Did I miss the announcement that we were going to VS
>>>>> 2008?
>>>>
>>>> Not that I know of.  Perhaps your local copy is modified somehow?
>>>> PK
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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