On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 02:53:44AM +0100 I heard the voice of Aaron Sloman, and lo! it spake thus: > > Having a directory name starting with '~' in the source tree was a > minor nuisance. I renamed it to avoid repeatedly having to use ./~ . > (I understand that's not intended to last.)
Yeah, that's just how launchpad builds those tarballs from the branch. > Apart from that, 'make' failed at first because I did not have flex. > But 'yum install flex' fixed that. Interesting. I wonder why that hasn't tripped you before? Oooh, hrm. Looks like the way we built tarballs for releases ended up pre-building the lex/yacc output files. I'll guess I'll look into what twisting we'd have to do to support having them prebuilt... > but our Solaris machine does not have cmake, and I doubt that I'll > be able to get it installed as Solaris is no longer officially > supported here. That's probably the tripping point. 'm pretty sure cmake supports it just fine, but when it's not already installed that adds a pretty tall hedge to jump. And older systems that aren't generally kept up to date, even that cmake supports, are gonna be a lot less likely to already have it installed and handy... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
