On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 11:04 -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > 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?
No, I haven't really looked at it yet, currently buried in xen, kexec and ext4 fun... I just know using distro-provided libs is definitely preferred in Red Hat land. :) > > -----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]
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