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Brian Bockelman commented on HDFS-1619: --------------------------------------- Hi Allen, I'm sorry, but I come to the opposite conclusion. RHEL5.5 doesn't have a preferred version of Java, so it's reasonable to ask for the community-standard one from Sun. OTOH, RHEL5.5 has a specific version of autotools, and by requiring a more recent version, you force the sysadmin to go against the vendor. It seems like something relatively trivial to change in order to help RHEL5.5 compatibility. Is there really a platform where we expecting int16_t to not exist, but have a recent version of automake (note: I'm not familiar with Solaris, this is not a rhetorical question)? Brian PS - note to reporter: You aren't going to get HDFS to cleanly build against RHEL5 even fixing this; ant is the next problem. > Does libhdfs really need to depend on AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, > AC_TYPE_INT64_T and AC_TYPE_UINT16_T ? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1619 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1619 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik > Assignee: Konstantin Shvachko > > Currently configure.ac uses AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T > and AC_TYPE_UINT16_T and thus requires autoconf 2.61 or higher. > This prevents using it on such platforms as CentOS/RHEL 5.4 and 5.5. Given > that those are pretty popular and also given that it is really difficult to > find a platform > these days that doesn't natively define intXX_t types I'm curious as to > whether we can simply remove those macros or perhaps fail ONLY if we happen > to be on such > a platform. > Here's a link to GNU autoconf docs for your reference: > http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Particular-Types.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira