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Frank Earl commented on THRIFT-2230:
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Sigh... SMH. Way to convince people to help...
No, "platform support" doesn't "just happen". But apparently working (as
evidenced by the 14 oustanding issues, some of them very severe, really- one
that's indicative of a seriously broken Autotools config (THRIFT-2127...))
build systems aren't happening either. You might be entitled to the comments
and the attitude if there weren't the issues going on there- but...
> Cannot Build on RHEL/Centos/Amazon Linux 6.x
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>
> Key: THRIFT-2230
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2230
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Build Process
> Affects Versions: 0.9.2
> Environment: CentOS, Amazon Linux
> Reporter: Ron Cemer
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.9.2
>
>
> Trying to run the bootstrap.sh in order to build the git version of Thrift on
> Amazon Linux, which is basically CentOS 6.x, errors with the following
> message:
> ./bootstrap.sh
> Configuring for:
> PHP Api Version: 20090626
> Zend Module Api No: 20090626
> Zend Extension Api No: 220090626
> configure.ac:20: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required
> configure.ac:20: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
> autoscan: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 63
> Ok, here's the deal. It is completely unacceptable to develop a utility
> which require a newer version of a build utilitity than that which is
> available on the most popular server OS in the world.
> CentOS 6.x is the most popular server OS in the world. CentOS ships with
> autoconf-2.63-5.1.7.
> Therefore, this is a bug which must be fixed immediately.
> Please notify me when this is done. I have a big project waiting on this.
> Because of this screw-up, I'm unable to build Thrift, which is required to
> build the Cassandra PDO driver for PHP. This is holding up a very important
> Big Data project for my company.
> I'd say that if you're not doing successful builds of Thrift on every major
> Linux distro (not to mention the most important one: CentOS), you're not
> doing a very good job of maintaining this package. Especially when you
> consider the fact that
> Also, why are there no Thrift RPMs for CentOS and RHEL, or Debian packages
> for Debian and Ubuntu? This project is important enough that the current
> stable version should be available for all Linux distros. You should put it
> into EPEL for RHEL/CentOS, and create your own PPA for Debian/Ubuntu. It's
> too painful to try to get past your crappy build process in order to use this
> tool to build other important packages.
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