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Our current port (i.e. the one maintaned by bww) is 4.9.2. This is a very old version (back from 2014). More and more projects refuse to build with that due to newer C++ features they need. One example is Chromium (see bitwiseworks/qtwebengine-os2#3). The other one is poppler.
It's a fork so it contains quite a huge upstream development history which we don't need. It only bloats the respository size and distracts attention from OS/2-specific tasks.
It's not controlled by bww so may disappear at any moment (which will break our development and deployment environment).
For this reason, we need a new repository. And given 1. above, we will use the same upstream source import technique we used for our port of Qt to OS/2. It's described well here: https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qt5-os2/wiki/Developers.
We also need to decide which version to go. There are two candidates: 8.x and 9.x (check https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/develop.html for the official development plan). 8.x is a bit more stable as it's a bit older. And 9.x is the latest stable release which will most likely get important updates soon. Also, 8.x has been already successfully built on OS/2 by Paul Smedley (https://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php?page=gcc-v8.x) so chances are higher that we won't experience any major problems when porting it rather than with 9.x. However, there is also a chance that if we go for 8.x now then we might end up porting some things twice when later moving to 9.x which I'd like to avoid. Some more investigation is needed.
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Decide which version to port
Decide which GCC version to port
Nov 15, 2019
Our current port (i.e. the one maintaned by bww) is 4.9.2. This is a very old version (back from 2014). More and more projects refuse to build with that due to newer C++ features they need. One example is Chromium (see bitwiseworks/qtwebengine-os2#3). The other one is poppler.
The 4.9.2 source code with our OS/2 patches lives here: https://github.com/psmedley/gcc/tree/gcc-4_9-branch-os2. That repository has a number of problems:
For this reason, we need a new repository. And given 1. above, we will use the same upstream source import technique we used for our port of Qt to OS/2. It's described well here: https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qt5-os2/wiki/Developers.
We also need to decide which version to go. There are two candidates: 8.x and 9.x (check https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/develop.html for the official development plan). 8.x is a bit more stable as it's a bit older. And 9.x is the latest stable release which will most likely get important updates soon. Also, 8.x has been already successfully built on OS/2 by Paul Smedley (https://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php?page=gcc-v8.x) so chances are higher that we won't experience any major problems when porting it rather than with 9.x. However, there is also a chance that if we go for 8.x now then we might end up porting some things twice when later moving to 9.x which I'd like to avoid. Some more investigation is needed.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: