Fair enough, although I did not realise you were talking about apr. I was talking about autoconf, freetype, libart, rrdtool etc, and all of those are installed in /opt/ganglia.
kind regards, Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Rueckert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 September 2006 16:00 > To: Grevis, Richard: IT (LDN) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] 3.0.4 and srclib > > > > First all you go way too far with my approach. > > On 2006-09-04 15:41:32 +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > your envionment certainly sounds like it is under control, but in > > mine, the engineered Linux build has packages that in some > instances > > are really quite old. Old enough for the Ganglia build to barf. > > > > In some cases a fix would have been easy because the > package was not > > there at all. And because I control the Ganglia servers > they were not > > too much trouble > > with them anyway. > > > > But we are an investment bank. Some of our monitored hosts > are related > > to trading, pricing, and quants (HPC for risk etc). If the ganglia > > agent is provably self contained, > > placing it on these system is OK. But if we wanted to upgrade a 3rd > > party package > > we would need to ensure the packages/libraries were not > used by the apps > > teams, > > and if they were, go through a build, test, release cycle > for the app > > code. > > work work work. > > > > So while I head what you say, I prefer static (Or dynamic but using > > the copies of the 3rd party libraries stored in the ganglia tree). > > lets say you stuff all your stuff in /opt/ganglia to avoid > conflicts with system libraries > > cd expat*/ > ./configure --prefix=/opt/ganglia && make && make install > cd ../confuse*/ > ./configure --prefix=/opt/ganglia && make && make install > cd ../apr*/ > ./configure --with-expat=/opt/ganglia --prefix=/opt/ganglia > && make && make install cd ../ganglia*/ ./configure > --with-expat=/opt/ganglia --prefix=/opt/ganglia > --with-apr=/opt/ganglia --with-confuse=/opt/ganglia > --enable-static --disable-shared \ && make && make install cd > .. ; echo done > > that is not a bit harder for you. > now you could also implement the same logic as found in the > svn configure. it tries to find system libraries (in standard > searchpaths or via configure params.), if nothing is found > than it falls back to the intree copy. > > from a packagers side it sucks atm. because you either have > to live with intree copies or patch the build heavily to > avoid that. atm i dont update the package as i have no time > for the build system and i dont want to have the intree libraries. > > darix > > -- > openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux > openSUSE is good for you > www.opensuse.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information about Barclays Capital, please visit our web site at http://www.barcap.com. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the Barclays Group does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Although the Barclays Group operates anti-virus programmes, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Barclays Group. Replies to this email may be monitored by the Barclays Group for operational or business reasons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
