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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...> - 2005-01-28 19:21:56
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Robert Walsh wrote: > I just tried building Valgrind for the folks here at work on our FC1 > machine. The build fell over because FC1 doesn't ship with autoconf > 2.59, which Valgrind apparently needs. I can't install that version of > autoconf very easily on this machine because it's also used as one of > our product build machines and we don't want to change the system > software. > > BTW: this appears to be a relatively new requirement - I built a version > of FC1 back in December without any problems. > > I'm of the opinion that we should be trying to make our autoconf stuff > as simple as possible to avoid situations like this. Maybe by choosing > a baseline version (perhaps the version that ships with the earliest > distribution release that we support) and not using any macros that > don't exist in that version? Or shipping any extra macros above this > that we need. This sounds good to me. N |