On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Bernard Li <bern...@vanhpc.org> wrote:

> Hi Matt:
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Matt Massie <m...@massie.us> wrote:
>
> > I'm +1 on building our distro with the version of autotools that has the
> > best overall platform support.  Once the distro is created, end users
> > shouldn't have to worry about bootstrapping ganglia themselves.  When you
> do
> > a 'make distcheck' the resulting distro has no dependencies on autotools.
> > While I use CentOS 5 myself on some projects, the autotools there are
> pretty
> > old since CentOS focusing more on stability and security than features.
>
> I guess the thing is, all we need to do is generate the tarball on a
> platform that has a newish version of autotools, then we can just send
> that tarball around to be built.  Then we won't have this issue.
>

Yep.  If you guys want, I can spin up an ec2 instance for building
temporarily just let me know which Linux distro you want.  Let me know what
I can do to help.

The other thing is there seems to be efforts to create packages for
> Open Solaris and OpenCSW, so as far as packages go, those guys maybe
> covered in the near future.
>

Great to hear.

-Matt



>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
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