----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Sharpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ethereal Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Naveen Kumar Kaushik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:13 AM Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please Compile the ethereal once on window before every release
> > On Sep 9, 2003, at 11:17 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote: > > > Typically we know that the CVS tree builds on a range of UNIX-like > > platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, perhaps Solaris, etc, but we do > > not > > have a build-farm, so we can't guarantee that it builds on all > > platforms. > > ...and there are many platforms to consider (see, for example, the list > under > > http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#binaries yes there are many platforms to consider but a large number of people use either Unix like OS (Unix,FreeBSD,Linux ) or win32. I personally feel this is a reason to take window compilation seriously since atleast on Unix type OS compilation is smooth. Please correct me if i am wrong . > > I don't know if the Written Word people would be willing to participate > in the pre-release build process, but that might be useful. > > The SourceForge Compile Farm: > > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1 > > might also be useful, although they don't have Slackware (which has > occasionally been the source of build problems) or Gentoo - I don't > know whether Mandrake is still sufficiently Red Hat-like that a Red Hat > build should work. They also don't have RH 8 or RH 9. They have Mac > OS X with Fink; I don't have Fink indtalled, so I could do a build to > make sure the tarball builds without Fink. (We should test the tarball > - there might be differences between what CVS does and what the tarball > does.) > > >
