do I smell a newsletter article ? - Sikosis Quoting Scott Mansfield <thephantom@xxxxxxx>: > I've been frustrated by this as well, especially during development of > the Network kit (which seemed especially sensitive to compiler versions > for some unknown reason). When I first started with the project I had > to drill through the newsletters archive to find out what was required > for OBOS development (issue 13, "So, you wanna be an OBOS developer", > IIRC). IM[not so]HO, it would behoove us to document a set of minimum > requirements for the toolchain somewhere on our site and in a more > prominent place, maybe on the "Dev Central" page. Better yet, perhaps > we could include a download link on said page for the complete > toolchain (including the updated cvs, ld, and jam stuff), that way > we're all using the same set of development tools (?). Standards are a > good thing sometimes. :-) > > For whatever it's worth I've been using the BeOS Max 3 beta 2 and am > quite happy with it. Vasper has done a really good job in maintaining > this distro. > > Just my two bits, not trying to stir up trouble. > > Cheers, > Scott > > On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 19:12 America/Los_Angeles, Andrew Bachmann > wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:23:44 -0400 EDT "Jared Eldredge" <jared@xxxxxx> > > wrote: > >> David > >> i believe that gcc 2.95.3 is the right compiler. OBOS uses JAM for > >> its > >> build system and you should probably have some software for that as > >> well. > > > > No, > > > > Please do not use gcc 2.95.3. It seems you are looking at an older > > version > > of BeOS MAX since they have (AFAIK) corrected this oversight in the > > current version. Use either the gcc included in R5 (from 1999) or the > > geekgadgets gcc. (from 2000, version 2.9-beos-000224) If they still > > have > > not fixed the BeOS MAX "distro" then you can still install it and > > install > > one of the working compilers over it. (or just switch to the other > > compiler if it turns out to be bundled with it as well) > > > >> could someone with more experience please reply for David with a list > >> of the software tools required/useful for diving into the code base? > > > > As it was mentioned earlier, you can find all of the open-beos specific > > tools at this page: http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/dev.php > > Please note that you will have to remake the jam from cvs after you do > > a checkout. You can do this by running the web jam in the tools > > subdir. > > > > Andrew > > > > > >