You can just replace the binary, you can find binaries at the GN git page here:
https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/+/refs/heads/master On Monday, October 12, 2020 at 7:26:18 PM UTC-6 Tekman wrote: > What is the recommended way to downgrade gn? Should I update its version > in the 2 DEPS files, commit and run gclient sync, or literally overwrite > gn.exe in \v8\buildtools\win\gn.exe with a binary I grab from somewhere > else? > > Sorry if this is a basic question, I didn't delve too deep into > depot_tools / gn / cpid / etc. because builds "just worked"™ for us until > now. > > Thanks! > > On Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 1:29:37 PM UTC-7 Rodrigo Hernandez wrote: > >> >> Hi Tekman, >> >> I've seen that error before, apparently there was a bug which allowed the >> dependency to be done, and that kind of dependency was/is made by older >> versions/tags. >> >> If you've already run gclient sync AFTER checking out LKGR 8.5 with git >> and that did not work, you can try manually replacing the gn executable >> with an older one, one or two months at least. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> On Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 6:57:12 PM UTC-6 Tekman wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> After a recent depot_tools update, we're seeing this failure building >>> LKGR 8.5: >>> >>> ERROR at //gni/v8.gni:179:3: Dependency not allowed. >>> The item //src/inspector:inspector_string_conversions >>> can not depend on //:features >>> because it is not in //:features's visibility list: [ >>> //.:* >>> ] >>> >>> The command line we're using is this: >>> >>> gn gen D:\v8_debug --args='v8_enable_i18n_support=false >>> is_component_build=false v8_monolithic=true >>> v8_use_external_startup_data=false treat_warnings_as_errors=false >>> use_custom_libcxx=false target_cpu=\"x64\" is_clang=false >>> v8_enable_pointer_compression=true enable_iterator_debugging=true >>> is_debug=true' >>> >>> Any tips or information about what might have changed and how we can fix >>> it? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >> -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-users/c0f99bf7-e8d5-4e50-a719-7a6ef58c2d82n%40googlegroups.com.
