Thursday, November 02, 2006

Retro-compiling

Spent most of the day trying to get the current source code for mchome to compile using current day compilers and libraries. The source dates back to around 5 years ago, and the current binaries run on a very out-dated SuSE 8.0 install (I don't think SuSE have officially support version 8.0 for yonks.)

After much fiddling, dealing with the fact that the source was upgraded to deal with 64 bit quite a bit since the mchome code was last touched, and the pernickityness of GCC 4.x (all good things I suppose) I finally got the code to build successfully. Now comes the interesting part - seeing if I can run the existing ofors on the newly compiled binaries.

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