Hi Mikhail, Thanks for the quick answer.
On 09/02/2011 14:32, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > On 09.02.2011 14:18, Jonathan CLARKE wrote: > > > While I don't mind installing autoconf and running ./autogen.sh on my > > build machines, I have a problem: I use Debian stable to build, > > and that version of autoconf is not available in it. > > Debian stable is squeeze now, and it contains autoconf 2.67-2. You > probably meant oldstable -- Lenny. Time to upgrade :) Right - my bad, old habits, I need more than 3 days to get rid of them :) I meant really "the currently installed version of Debian on most machines running Debian". > > As a result, I can no longer build Cfengine... > > This is unfortunate -- I acted with assumption that those who build > Cfengine from SVN also have sufficiently new build environment. > > As this assumption does not match reality, I am going to set up > producing and publishing tarballs with generated files every day. Is > that ok? It would certainly help. However, I often see requests from the Cfengine team to test latest version from SVN to see if a bug is correctly fixed. I fear this change might make this more of a hurdle, and effectively reduce community testing on the trunk... > > Is there a solution or workaround that I should be aware of? If not, > > any advice would be appreciated. > > Well, generating configure on any modern machine and building on Lenny > is one possible workaround until aforementioned steps are taken. Sure, but this is pretty hard to automate, and would it not generate a configure that relies on machine-specific parameters? If it doesn't, why not provide one? By the way, may I suggest including an "INSTALL" file, or updating README to reflect this change? While "./configure; make" is pretty standard and may not need documenting, I don't think it's so common to need to generate configure (I at least have never had to, maybe it's just me!) Jonathan -- ========================================== Jonathan CLARKE ------------------------------------------ Normation 44 rue Cauchy, 94110 Arcueil, France ------------------------------------------ Telephone: +33 (0)1 83 62 41 24 ------------------------------------------ Web: http://www.normation.com/ ========================================== _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
