CentOS 5 and 6 don't come out of the box with a new enough version of GCC to compile Mesos. Already they need to upgrade that to compile Mesos. I don't see how adding another upgrade when they have to do GCC is overly onerous / should require lots of compatibility hacks to make unnecessary.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:17 PM Kapil Arya <ka...@mesosphere.io> wrote: > It's not available for CentOS 5/6 or the previous debian stable. I guess > since we still want to keep supporting the older distros, one possibility > is to create a patch for configure.ac which is applied during ./bootstrap > after detecting the automake version. Is this an acceptable solution? > > If this works, then we can decide on whether we want to patch it for older > (< 1.13) or newer (>= 1.13) automake version. Is there a preference there? > > Kapil > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> wrote: > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > >
