It looks like it's a git repo, I would guess you be able to just check out the tools that were available at the same time as the version of V8 that you want to build?
--Zac On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:27:12 PM UTC-7, Chris Hillery wrote: > > I've seen several earlier threads on variants of this problem, but none of > the solutions appear to work any more as they were for older versions of > v8, or because depot_tools has moved on, or both. > > I need to build v8 5.9 for Centos 6. The big problem is that Centos 6 uses > glibc 2.12, which is quite ancient, and all of the tools that are > downloaded by the v8 build process are built using newer versions of glibc. > This includes gn and clang in particular, but also the binutils tools. > About the only thing that does work as expected is gclient. > > The closest I've gotten so far is attempting to use the older gyp method, > which at least bypasses gn. I believe I could also build gn for Centos 6, > although it's challenging. > > I can also request it not to use the built-in clang - the Centos 6 image I > am using does have gcc 4.8.2 installed which should be good enough. However > when not using clang, it is also necessary to skip the built-in sysroot. > When I do that, I get errors about glib-2.0, gmodule-2.0, and other > packages I don't recognize not being available. > > Basically I'm wondering if there are any ways forward, in particular if > anyone has successfully traveled this road already. Is v8 no longer > officially supported for Centos / Red Hat 6? Are there any ways to get the > older versions of the tools from days when v8 was built for Centos 6? (I > assume those days existed at some point...) > > Thanks, > Ceej > aka Chris Hillery > -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
