I see why its failing -- I just thought that's exactly what that patch
that went in was supposed to fix.

Thanks,
Roman.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> On ppc64le it is failing because of this
>
>     UNAME_VERSION = #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 27 16:04:07 UTC 2016
>     configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
>
> Cos
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 02:22PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Olaf Flebbe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > hi amir
>> >
>> > the bigtop.bom for gpdb is plain insane: it fetches git trunk, rather a 
>> > defined piece of software.
>>
>> correct. but fwiw: since it does fetch trunk that patch should be in
>> there (since it was merged).
>>
>> this, in turn, makes me wonder why the heck the build is still red.
>> any thoughts?
>>
>> > we should change it to fetch the git merge point of that commit instead or 
>> > any later commit for now.
>> >  i am very busy right now, anyone else can pick up that task.
>> >
>> > roman committed himself to update bigtop.bom when there is a release;-/
>>
>> still working on this -- but since it may not alight with the bigtop
>> release timeline we may
>> need to discuss other options (like not releasing it, etc.).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roman.

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