On Sep 9, 2003, at 11:17 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
Typically we know that the CVS tree builds on a range of UNIX-like
platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, perhaps Solaris, etc, but we do not
have a build-farm, so we can't guarantee that it builds on all platforms.
...and there are many platforms to consider (see, for example, the list under
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#binaries
I don't know if the Written Word people would be willing to participate in the pre-release build process, but that might be useful.
The SourceForge Compile Farm:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1
might also be useful, although they don't have Slackware (which has occasionally been the source of build problems) or Gentoo - I don't know whether Mandrake is still sufficiently Red Hat-like that a Red Hat build should work. They also don't have RH 8 or RH 9. They have Mac OS X with Fink; I don't have Fink indtalled, so I could do a build to make sure the tarball builds without Fink. (We should test the tarball - there might be differences between what CVS does and what the tarball does.)
