David Haller wrote:
Hello Per,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Per Jessen wrote:
(newbie alert)
All I really want to do is apply a minor patch to nasm to make the preprocessor work for 64bit stack arguments too. However once I got started I noticed that the latest nasm stable is 2.09.07, whereas our current version is 2.07. I can easily upgrade it of course, but are there any other considerations I need to consider?
Judging from my >10 years experience on my old "main" box (until last Oct. or so, running a former SuSE 6.2), and using a "current"[1] nasm on that, updating nasm should be no problem. Have a look at the release-notes though, whether they state anything about "breaks old code/stuff"[2] ...
Why not "secure" a backup of the nasm-2.07 RPM (DVD/ISO/just .rpm) and just "jump into the water" and try it? ;) As long as you can revert, there should be no problems. And nasm being an assembler ... It's not as if you're replacing your kernel (via kexec) or libc on-the-fly ;)
Well, my concern was not myself, but others, in particular other projects that depend nasm for building. My own system has been on 2.08/09 for over a year. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org