Hi All,
You all might know or not know that I have been packaging the mspgcc project for Ubuntu over the past few months. The packages I created work fine on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) but fail to build for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). https://launchpad.net/~adamhorden/+archive/msp430 I have hit a brick wall for now as I built these packages by creating a patch from the files in CVS and the relevant upstream source. In CVS we use GCC 3.4. This has now been dropped in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). This is where I noticed some discussion here over source code in Bazaar. Last night I checked this out and I could compile a package fine for Karmic using any gcc version. So I now have a list of questions, and as packager I can rebuild my packages with the new source in Bazaar as well as keeping the current packages created from source in CVS: 1.) Having a bit of confusion at the moment with the mspgcc project. I built the packages by creating a patch of the files that are currently in CVS against the relevant upstream source. I did not look at the new code in Bazaar originally until yesterday. My Karmic packages fail to build as the CVS files depend on GCC 3.3 and that has now been dropped unless I back port it and I do not want to do that. I did a test with the stuff in Bazaar and it works fine on Karmic, problem is what is the state of the source in Bazaar? but from my testing it would work well for development packages possibility built each day automatically for Karmic and I can modify my build system to get code from Bazaar and create packages. It seems more stable and can be built with any GCC version. But there is very little documentation about what should be used and what patches should be applied. 2.) My second problem is I need a list of all devices that are supported at the moment for the CVS source and Bazaar source and I have been looking through the source but it does not give me much clues. My build system builds patches that could be used in any package. Not just Ubuntu. 3.) Why do we not have regular releases? Rob Spanton seems to agree we both need to push for mspgcc to have a regular release cycle. This way we can get the changes upstream. Thanks, Adam Horden
