At Wednesday 07:23 AM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
On 2004.07.21, Rob Crittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Many relatively old (but not ancient) Linux distributions ship with
> autoconf 2.13 such as RedHat 7.2, 7,3 and AS 2.1. Upgrading isn't
> particularly painful but many only like using "official" rpms and
AFAIK
> RedHat does not provide them.
http://www.redhat.com/swr/noarch/autoconf-2.57-3.noarch.html
That's a RedHat 9 RPM, not an Advanced Server 2.1 RPM. If you make this
change, AOLserver will no longer be able to be built with RHAS 2.1 using
stock/supported RPMs. And RHAS 2.1 is going to be around for quite some
time--it's still the most stable and well-supported RedHat enterprise
version, although vendors are gradually getting around to certifying their
code on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.
Since autotools are mostly Perl scripts (which means you *should* be
able to install the latest autotools RPMs on even older RedHat systems),
the biggest dependency for using newer autotools is to have the required
version of Perl installed, and I'm sure RedHat makes available for even
older distributions:
http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/perl-5.8.0-88.i386.html
The current supported version of Perl for RHAS 2.1 is 5.6.1.
> What is the advantage of upgrade?
Considering Autoconf 2.58 was released back in November 2003, I'm
assuming it's stable by now. The advantage of upgrade at this point
is to keep our build infrastructure fairly current.
If that's the overriding advantage, I'd say the disadvantage of making
RHAS 2.1 a more difficult environment on which to build AOLserver (if that
in fact would be the result) outweighs it.
- John
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