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 a
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 02:33, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
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 bet
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 a
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
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi Matt:
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Matt Massie 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 w
Hi Matt:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Matt Massie 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 do
> a 'mak
Hi Carlo:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
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 mind reader! ;-)
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
> wrote:
>
> > Ideally, which platform is used to bootstrap shouldn't be relevant though
> > and IMHO we should be i
