[Coco] ack!

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 02 June 2013 14:38:35 Bill Pierce did opine:

> Ok, that's all fine and good for those who have commit access.
> Let's say I (no commit access) just wanted to install the tools,
> download the files, and build the repo locally. Starting from scratch,
> how would I set this up? This is assuming that there's no LWTools
> installation, or any of the minigw or cygwin. I'm running Windows Vista
> Home Premium.
> 
> Step by step, what would have to be done to compile the repo?
> 
> The reason I ask this, is there are a lot of people who've asked the
> same question and got "partial" answers. On this list, questions like
> this  usually go the way of "well you need he current mingw... No, you
> must use the old one... no it's the new one but with these arguments...
> Ok but you need Linux... But I'm running Windows... but if you get
> Linux you can.... And Linux this.... and Linux that.... " OR "you need
> toolshed... No toolshed is gone, lwtools is in... but I cant build
> lwtools in windows... in linux it's easy... linux this.... linux
> that..." and the conversation never comes back to the question. How do
> I go from scratch to a NitrOS9 build? I am not bad mouthing Linux here,
> it's a fine system WHEN set up right, BUT I'm not ditching 15 years of
> building a stable windows system that does exactly what I want and has
> no problems to install something I know nothing about and cannot use my
> $10k+ of archived software collected over 15 years just to build
> Nitros9 when I K NOW it is being done in windows as well.
> 
> The bad thing is, I will get more response from the above statement than
> I will the question. Remember?.... there was a question up there... :-P
> 
> 
> Bill Pierce

+10 at least Bill.  Even when I have BTDT, but not in the last 4 or 5 
months, getting back up to speed can be hell for the old man.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 1:40 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] ack!
> 
> 
> From: Gene Heskett
> 
> > I tried to do a test build a day or so back, but my last pull seems to
> > have
> > disabled mamou for a level3 build.
> > 
> > If anyone has a makefile/rules.mak files that work with lwtools stuff,
> > I would appreciate copies.
> > 
> > Or, if anyone knows, is the repo open again so I can do an hg update?
> > apparently not, it comes back instantly with no files changed.
> > 
> > Is there some new magic incantation to pull a new 'tip'?
> 
> Have you switched to the new repository after SourceForge moved it to
> the new SourceForge platform on May 16? If you have commit permission,
> the new repository is at
> ssh://<username>@hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code. The old repository is
> still available at
> http://nitros9.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/nitros9/nitros9, but it's
> read-only.
> 
> The reason I ask is because Boisy committed a lot of changes to the
> makefiles six days ago.
> 
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