Bernard,
I almost tend to agree. We should modify the configure process to
first check for the existence of system-installed versions of both (and
expat).
Cheers
Martin
--- Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I vote to just include apr and libconfuse as tarballs if we do not
> need to modify the source - even if we need to, we can apply patches
> so it is not necessary to check the tree into CVS.
>
> The reason is because right now I cannot do rpmbuild -ta on the
> ganglia tarball because it is confused with libconfuse's spec file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of
> matt massie
> Sent: Thu 02/03/2006 23:37
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Ganglia Developers
> Subject: [Ganglia-developers] Re: How to replace apr-whatever with
> apr-0.9.7
>
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
>
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > what would be your advice on how to replace the current apr bits
> in
> > CVS with a more current set like 0.9.7?
> >
> > In SVN I would move the old bits away and check in the new tree.
> As
> > CVS does not support moving, what should I do? If it were just a
> few
> > files, I would patch them up, but we are talking about a few 100
> > files.
>
> does 0.9.7 have the multicast support we need? if so, will we need
> to modify the code to match the apache multicast api?
>
> if you look in ./configure.in you'll see that we have ...
>
> # Configuring the source in the ./srclib...
> nl='
> '
> ganglia_popdir=`pwd`
>
> echo $ac_n "${nl}Configuring libmetrics ...${nl}"
> cd srclib/libmetrics && ./configure --cache-file=$ganglia_popdir/
> config.cache
> cd $ganglia_popdir
>
> echo $ac_n "${nl}Configuring expat ...${nl}"
> cd srclib/expat && ./configure
> --cache-file=$ganglia_popdir/config.cache
> cd $ganglia_popdir
>
> echo $ac_n "${nl}Configuring apr ...${nl}"
> cd srclib/apr && ./configure
> --cache-file=$ganglia_popdir/config.cache
> cd $ganglia_popdir
>
> echo $ac_n "${nl}Configuring libconfuse ...${nl}"
> cd srclib/confuse && ./configure --cache-file=$ganglia_popdir/
> config.cache --disable-nls
> cd $ganglia_popdir
>
>
> there is no reason we couldn't change the way this works.
>
> to be honest, we don't really need "expat" anymore since APR has an
> expat API... out of laziness i didn't port our expat code over to
> apr. that port would reduce our dependencies to ./apr, libmetrics
> and libconfuse.
>
> libmetrics needs to stay in CVS (i think) since it's our code but apr
>
> and libconfuse might be better handled another way.
>
> we can required the libraries be installed if you want to compile
> from source, but we'll statically link (to make deployment easier).
>
> we can
> % cd srclib
> % cvs remove -fR apr
> % cvs commit
>
> to "remove" apr (i think that's the commands) but unfortunately, cvs
> will never delete the directories. if a person does a "cvs update"
> without the -P (prune) argument then cvs will show all the empty apr
> directories. bother. i wish i never checked apr into CVS in the
> first place.
>
> i think moving to subversion, might be the best long term solution
> since sourceforge supports it now.
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://massie.us
>
>
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