It appears that the mainstream development of Amanda has taken off in a direction that has/will result in making in impossible to compile on many existing platforms that have been historically supported by Amanda.
While there are good reasons for this change, it represents a major loss of functionality for us, and I suspect many other long term Amanda users who depend on being able to use this package to backup their older clients. I have been discussing this issue at length, off list, with one of the developers of the project. His recommendation is that we create a "client only" version of Amanda that is a fork off of the 2.5.2.x branch of th tree. This version, as I understand it predates the need for glibc, which as I have just discovered is unsorted on may many hardware/software architectures. I think it also predates the need for pkg-configure, which does not seem to have the same portability issues as glib, but is IMHO an unnecessary build time dependency, given that configure was designed for, what I believe to be, the same need. I am thinking about volunteering to lead this effort, as we are in the middle of upgrading a fairly large Amanda installation at my work, and i have, at least, 3 OS/hardware pairs thta are not supported by glib. I would like to hear from other users of Amanda how they feel about this. i hope the collective wisdom of the list may help to provide some direction for my thoughts. Thanks. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
