At Wednesday 11:40 AM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
On 2004.07.21, John Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
Excuse my RedHat ignorance, but could you explain the difference?
RedHat split off its "enterprise" operating systems (supported and
fee-based) from its free operating systems. AS 2.1 was the first
enterprise release (roughly based on RH 7.3), and RHEL 3 is the current
release (roughly equivalent to RH9). RH9 is either not supported now, or
will soon be desupported, as are all other non-enterprise RedHat OS
releases. Future free RedHat offerings will all be based around Fedora.
Will this RPM not install on RHAS 2.1 at all? Is it because of unmet
dependencies, or something else?
It might or it might not--some RH9 RPMs works on RHAS 2.1, some
don't. The same applies to RH7.3 RPMs, even though those tend to be more
closely compatible with RHAS 2.1. In fact sometimes it's not even
possible to build RHAS 2.1 RPMs from RH9 source RPMs (without sometimes
extensive tweaking). The problems can include dependencies, differences
in underlying libraries (glibc), and so on.
> 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.
It actually wouldn't be: we'd still distribute the generated "configure"
script for folks to run, which *should* be platform-neutral and not use
any features not commonly available (i.e., backwards compatible) across
all the platforms that autotools claims to support.
Ah, ok. I think that'd be fine--if people have to update autoconf to
develop AOLserver, that's probably not as much of an issue, so long as it
will still build on the majority of platforms.
- John
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