Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

2009-11-03 Thread Jesse Becker
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

Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

2009-11-03 Thread Matt Massie
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

Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

2009-11-02 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
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

Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

2009-10-30 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Carlo: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon care...@sajinet.com.pe wrote: Curious about how a backward compatible tarball would be like, but if by that you meant that you can use the resulting configure script and Yes! That is what I mean -- wow Carlo, you must be a

Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

2009-10-30 Thread Bernard Li
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

Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

2009-10-30 Thread Matt Massie
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

Re: [Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

2009-10-30 Thread Matt Massie
I'm glad the two of you guys agree technically here and feel free enough to tease each other a bit :). 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

[Ganglia-developers] bootstrapping ganglia with modern autotool versions for release (was Re: Ganglia 3.1.4 beta ready for testing)

2009-10-29 Thread Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
Trimming CC and changing Subject to reflect thread better On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:54:17PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon care...@sajinet.com.pe wrote: Ideally, which platform is used to bootstrap shouldn't be relevant though and