Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

[Bernard Li <be...@va...>]

Hi Carlo:

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
<ca...@sa...> wrote:

> Curious about how a "backward compatible" tarball would be like, but if
> by that you meant that you can use the resulting configure script and

Yes!  That is what I mean -- wow Carlo, you must be a mind reader! ;-)

> As for testing, is there any problem you had found on the "unofficial"
> package that I posted and that was build on Fedora Rawhide x86 :
>
>  http://sajino.sajinet.com.pe/ganglia/ganglia-3.1.4.tar.gz

Don't have time to test this out yet.

> Other than being able to work on Solaris and not asking for an unnecessary
> C++ compiler I wouldn't expect it to be that different when used to build
> ganglia binaries.

I have a Fedora 9 VM that I can use to bootstrap in the future --
would the autotools that come with that version work?

Cheers,

Bernard