From: Matt M. <ma...@ma...> - 2009-10-30 20:50:59
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Bernard Li <be...@va...> wrote: > Hi Matt: > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Matt Massie <ma...@ma...> wrote: > > > I'm +1 on building our distro with the version of autotools that has the > > best overall platform support. Once the distro is created, end users > > shouldn't have to worry about bootstrapping ganglia themselves. When you > do > > a 'make distcheck' the resulting distro has no dependencies on autotools. > > While I use CentOS 5 myself on some projects, the autotools there are > pretty > > old since CentOS focusing more on stability and security than features. > > I guess the thing is, all we need to do is generate the tarball on a > platform that has a newish version of autotools, then we can just send > that tarball around to be built. Then we won't have this issue. > Yep. If you guys want, I can spin up an ec2 instance for building temporarily just let me know which Linux distro you want. Let me know what I can do to help. The other thing is there seems to be efforts to create packages for > Open Solaris and OpenCSW, so as far as packages go, those guys maybe > covered in the near future. > Great to hear. -Matt > > Cheers, > > Bernard > |