There are two issues here:
1. The issue raised by Carlos and worked on by Bernard: what version of
autotools to bootstrap ganglia with. Bootstrapping doesn't involve building
code but rather generating the build environment (m4 macros and /bin/sh
scripts). Once the tarball is created (with the appropriate version of
autotools), it will support a wider number of platforms along with providing
better backward compatibility.
2. The definitive list of supported operating systems and metrics we
provide. I tried myself to keep a list together myself in the past and it
was a constantly moving target (more platforms and metrics were being added
all the time). libmetrics is the best place to look at to answer this
question.
-Matt
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Jesse Becker <haw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 02:33, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
> <care...@sajinet.com.pe> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:28:03PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a Fedora 9 VM that I can use to bootstrap in the future --
> >> would the autotools that come with that version work?
> >
> > something with libtool 2.2 probably better, as well as something
> > that is still getting updates (in case there are bugs that need
> > to be fixed).
> >
> > Fedora 12 is going to be released in a couple of weeks and
> > therefore Fedora 10 will go out of support a month after that,
> > leaving Fedora 9 EOL for more than 3 months already :
> >
> >
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-July/msg00004.html
>
> While Fedora 9 may be EOL, there are older distributions, such as
> CentOS4.x that are not. Is there an official policy on what distros
> are supported? I can't find a list on the website or wiki. The
> 'ganglia.pod' file claims:
>
> Ganglia runs on Linux (i386, ia64, sparc, alpha, powerpc, m68k,
> mips, arm, hppa, s390),
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, MacOS X, Solaris, AIX, IRIX,
> Tru64, HPUX and
> Windows NT/XP/2000/2003/2008 making it as portable as it is scalable.
>
> That still true? The file was last updated in r1708 (Aug 2008), but
> the vast bulk of the content is from r225 when the file was created
> back in 2003. When was the last time someone built ganglia on IRIX,
> or Linux-hppa (<shudder>)? This of course ignores various
> distributions, which seems to be the problem at hand.
>
> This all said, I strongly suspect that a build that works on
> RHEL4/CentOS4 will work with Fedora9 (if there's a desire to support
> that distribution). Similarly, a build that works for older SuSE
> releases would be useful as well. And let's not forget the ancient
> Debian systems out there. ;-)
>
> --
> Jesse Becker
>
>
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