Thanks for the assist. Sorry if 'broken' sounded pejorative; I was using it in the technical sense, as in "exhibits a reproducible bug".
If it's just 'cos I have an older distro, that explains it. I guess I'll have to brave the build of boost then, or upgrade to a later version of Mandrake... On 08/09/05, Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2005-09-08T11:29:01+0100, Andy Jones wrote: > > It seems to match my experience. (In summary: Log of an IRC > > conversation in April: a monotone user experienced the same symptoms > > as me, was using the pre-built binary under red-hat seven. It went > > away when he compiled from source.) > > > I'm using the pre-built binary on Mandrake 9.1. > > > Can anyone confirm that the prebuilt binary is broken? > > Is anyone using it without problems? On what system? > > The binaries run the testsuite as part of the release process; so the > prebuilt binary is not "broken" and is known to work (at least) on on > the machine it was built on before it is even made available to the > public. > > What you (and the RH 7 user) are running into appears to be caused by > the fact that the prebuilt binary is built on a modern system with a > working getaddrinfo(); RH 7 and Mandrake 9.1 appear (from a distance) to > be systems where getaddrinfo() is either broken or simply not present in > glibc. > > If you build a binary from source on your system, it should work fine > (as the RH 7 user found), because autoconf will detect the > missing/broken getaddrinfo() and use an alternate method. > > Cheers, > -mjg > -- > Matthew Gregan |/ > /| [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Monotone-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel > _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
