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Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1
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Bill Wohler |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1 |
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Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:31:50 -0700 |
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David Levine <address@hidden> writes:
> Bill wrote:
>
>> But going forward Ken might be open to putting a link on the home
>> page called "Snapshots" that points to some directory somewhere
>> where the nightly build-bot can deposit a tarball called
>> nmh-snapshot-<YYYYMMDD>>.tgz.
>
> I expect that wouldn't be worth the effort, both initial and
> ongoing.
>
> And it should be very easy for a user to do this:
>
> $ git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/nmh.git
> $ cd nmh
> $ docs/contrib/build_nmh -di
>
> though on CentOS 6 and maybe others, that requires
> installing a newer (at least 2.68) autoconf. I don't know
> what version of autoconf comes with CentOS 7.
Never mind, since what I was asking for was an amd64 binary snapshot,
but that is probably untenable.
Here's why:
It took over four weeks for me to do this very easy task on our CentOS 6
system. Fortunately, they had already installed some more modern
compilation tools, but not all.
1. Ask IT to install git. Go to CCB. Install.
2. Compile, notice that a library is missing.
3. Ask IT to install library. Go to CCB. Install.
4. Go to 2.
At any time, IT could have said no. Game over.
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Bill Wohler, 2014/07/21
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, David Levine, 2014/07/21
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1,
Bill Wohler <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Bill Wohler, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Jerry Heyman, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Bill Wohler, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, heymanj, 2014/07/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] What about an nmh-1.6-RC1, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/07/22