I think most people like this idea (Martin, Matt??) - so I think we can start thinking about how to modify the configure/make system.
Jarod, have you already done some work on this front? Thanks, Bernard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jarod Wilson Sent: Mon 14/08/2006 10:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] apr, expat, confuse as shipped with ganglia On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 15:41 -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > Hi all: > > In discussion with Marcus Rueckert (SUSE Linux packager), he suggested > a solution which the subversion folks are doing in their latest 1.4.0 > RC - to ship dependencies in a separate tarball. This way, for Linux > packagers, we only need the "core" tarball and will not include the > dependencies, then we can simply link against whatever the distro > provides. > > I think this is a good solution and will eliminate headaches for > package maintainers of the various distroes. Just to confirm, that works nicely for Red Hat and Fedora too. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
