we encountered a lot of issues in thrift between all the backwards incompatible changes automake had in 1.12 to 1.14 and trying to support all the default versions across different distros. due to this we are switching to cmake as well
-Jake On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Benjamin Mahler <benjamin.mah...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about CentOS 5 and 6? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule > > Also, how does this interact with the effort to use CMake? > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-898 > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Kapil Arya <ka...@mesosphere.io> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > First off, I am not sure if we record the minimum required version of > > automake/autoconf somewhere in the documentation. > > > > Having said that, I want to propose to move to automake 1.13 in order to > be > > able to use the "AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS" macro which allows us to > add a > > "test" target to just build the test and not run it. The issue is tracked > > at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-2273 and the > corresponding > > RRs have received some ship-its. > > > > Best, > > Kapil > > > > ================== > > Compatibility notes: > > Automake 1.13 came out in 2013 and here is the compatibility status for > > leading distros: > > * Debian: Since 8.0 [1]. > > * Ubuntu: Since 13.10 [2]. > > * Fedora: Since Fedora 20 [3]. > > * Centos: Since 7.0 [4]. > > > > 1. https://packages.debian.org/jessie/automake > > 2. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/automake > > 3. https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/automake > > 4. http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/ > > >