This PR is also related: https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/362
Andor On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Andor Molnar <an...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'm having problems resolving the issue mentioned in this Jira and need > some feedback from you: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-3034 > > In a nutshell the situation with *cppunit* is as follows: > LibreOffice team confirmed that from version *1.14.0* they will no longer > ship m4 macro definitions in cppunit releases. They encourage everybody to > use *pkg-config* instead in order to generate configure script and > Makefile. By the way, this is not a new thing, it was supported even before > 1.14.0. So basically, they no longer support both tools, only pkg-config. > > So, in order to support building and running C++ tests on recent > distributions with cppunit-1.14.0 like Ubuntu 18.04, Fedora, etc., we have > to switch to *pkg-config*. > > *Backward compatibility* > pkg-config is going to be a new dependency of the C client which we need > to add to the documentation near to autoconf 2.59 requirement. On the > flipside we can remove the requirement of cppunit.m4. > > Another thing we can do is to maintain two different configure.ac scripts > from now on: one for cppunit.m4 and another one for pkg-config which is > going to be the default. We also have to describe in the documentation why > we made that change and how to revert to the m4 version if needed. > > The way it's currently implemented in the following pull request has been > tested and works on Ubuntu 14.04, 18.04 and CentOS 7 as long as pkg-config > is installed. > > https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/528 > > Please share your thoughts and review the changes. > > Thanks, > Andor > > >
