2012/8/24 Greg Banks <g...@fastmail.fm>: > > > I wouldn't describe RHEL 5 and 6 as "old" yet, their end of production dates > are in 2017 and 2020 respectively. > > https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ You're right.
> Running such systems out to a large fraction of their vendors' nominal > production lifespan is a perfectly sensible approach for a site to take, and > I don't see a valid reason to exclude such folks from being able to > contribute to the project via git as well as just use it. Just because their > CIO has a desire for stability does not exclude them from Freedom #1 > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > Sébastien, it might be easiest to copy a recent working version of the > PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro into cmulocal/ so it works on all current platforms. > Assuming of course licencing allows. You may need to rename it to ensure the > correct version is used, I'm not sure what the include priority is. I saw that calling twice AC_SUBST is not a problem (see http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/pkgconfig/pkg_check_modules.html#idp1016352). There is therefore any more dependency on the version of pkg-config. Your solution is also a good one. > Also, thanks for coming back with the revisions, I really appreciate your > efforts. Unfortunately until today I've been up to my ears in fixing Cyrus > search and now I'm going on holiday, so I won't be able to give your work the > attention it deserves for some time. > I appreciated your code review and your comments very constructive and informed.
