Hi all, For the project I am involved in (the news server INN), I use a few packages that I built in their latest versions.
I reckon it would be useful to share such packages, in case other people also want to test them. No need to waste time in compiling the latest versions of common programs or libraries if somebody else has already done it! So far, I have put in /opt/cfarm of most servers (when writable) these symlinks: lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 40 2011-08-05 21:15 autoconf-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/autoconf-2.68 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 42 2011-08-05 21:15 binutils-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/binutils-2.21.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 36 2011-08-05 21:15 bison-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/bison-2.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 47 2011-08-05 21:15 cyrus-sasl-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/cyrus-sasl-2.1.24rc1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 36 2011-08-05 21:15 db-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/db-5.2.28 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 41 2011-08-05 21:15 gcc-core-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/gcc-core-4.6.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 36 2011-08-05 21:15 gmp-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/gmp-5.0.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 37 2011-08-05 21:15 krb5-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/krb5-1.9.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 36 2011-08-05 21:15 m4-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/m4-1.4.16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 36 2011-08-05 21:15 make-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/make-3.82 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 34 2011-08-05 21:15 mpc-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/mpc-0.9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 37 2011-08-05 21:15 mpfr-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/mpfr-3.0.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 41 2011-08-05 21:15 openssl-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/openssl-1.0.0d lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 38 2011-08-05 21:15 perl5-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/perl-5.14.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 39 2011-08-05 21:15 python2-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/Python-2.7.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 39 2011-08-05 21:15 python3-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/Python-3.2.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 37 2011-08-06 13:45 zlib-latest -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/zlib-1.2.5 This way, if you want to compile your own package with the latest version of gcc, you only need to use: export CC=/opt/cfarm/gcc-core-latest/bin/gcc or something similar in your environment variables. It will always use the latest gcc version compiled on the server. The same thing could be done with other packages mentioned above. You can run /opt/cfarm/autoconf-latest/bin/autoconf (as well as autoheader and autoscan). You can use --with-openssl=/opt/cfarm/openssl-latest ... Well, I hope it can be helpful to a few people here. Please note that I use the default values at configure time (except for Berkeley DB for which I need "--enable-dbm" for INN, so that is why I enabled it). If someone has a special need, I can obviously add the flag to enable a feature. Just tell! Again, do not hesitate to add symlinks to other packages you have successfully built. The best is of course to follow the new versions and provide the latest build. If you have any comments or suggestions on improving the gcc-cfarm service, feel free to speak up. For your information, the script I use to generate these symlinks is "symlink-releases.sh" in the download area: http://download.gna.org/gcc-cfarm/ It allows to create/update the symlink (of course if the existing one, if any, belongs to the user who runs the script). Have a nice week-end, -- Julien ÉLIE « Quand tu auras lu ces lignes, le papyrus s'autodétruira. » (Astérix) _______________________________________________ Gcc-cfarm-users mailing list Gcc-cfarm-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gcc-cfarm-users
