Re: [Freeipmi-devel] 2/18 change - "configure.ac: fix of automake init"

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

Debian GNU/Linux stable supports 1.9.5. 

Autotools are mainly of concern only for developers and packagers. Now
my question is, can we generate RPM packages for RHEL3 using RHEL4 and
likewise for SLES? If not, we definitely need to support older distros
for a while.

Another option is to reduce file names. But I am not in favor of this
idea, because ustar is a temporary problem.

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Cress, Andrew R writes:

> Al/Anand,
>
> RedHat EL 4 has automake 1.9.2, but SLES9 sp1 and RH EL3 u8 have
> automake 1.8.
> What's the plan to support those?  
>
> Andy 
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Albert Chu
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:52 PM
> To: Anand Babu Periasamy
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] 2/18 change - "configure.ac: fix of
> automake init"
>
> Ok, lets do that + the tar-ustar option.
>
> Al
>
> > It is OK to make minimum required version as 1.9.
> > --
> > Anand Babu
> > GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31
> > Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org]
> > The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org]
> >
> > Albert Chu writes:
> > > It should work with automake 1.9, that's what I have.
> > >
> > > I suppose I can just do ustar internally in our local repo.  In the
> > > savannah repo we are close to 99 chars, but the naming of the package
> > > keeps it at about 92-93 chars, while the package naming I do
> internally
> > > sometimes pushes it above 99.
> > >
> > > Al
> > >
> > > > Al,
> > > > The problem was ustar option was not supported by automake-1.8. If
> you
> > > > really need that option  we should change minimum required version
> of
> > > > automake to 1.10.
> > > > --
> > > > Anand Babu
> > > > GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31
> > > > Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org]
> > > > The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org]
> > > >
> > > > Albert Chu writes:
> > > > > What was the error?  We should work on an alternate solution rather
> > > > > than
> > > > > just revert to the earlier configure.ac.
> > > > >
> > > > > Al
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Al,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ./autogen.sh failed with your chance.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I use
> > > > > >
> > > > > > autoconf 2.61
> > > > > > automake 1.8.5
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > Bala
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > Free as in freedom
> > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Bala,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Is there a reason you reverted my fix to configure.ac from
> 2/16/07?
> > > > > > > Do
> > > > > > you guys run an older autoconf version that didn't support the
> > > > > > changes
> > > > > > I
> > > > > > made?  I'm confused.
> > > > > > > Al
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > Albert Chu
> > > > > > > address@hidden
> > > > > > > 925-422-5311
> > > > > > > Computer Scientist
> > > > > > > High Performance Systems Division
> > > > > > > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> > > > > > >
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>
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