On Monday 13 October 2014 10:22:11 David Ashley wrote:
> These are not automation issues. These are pure build issues.
>
> First, there is a problem with CMake. You can not just ask your
> distribution to install CMake and be ready to go. The version of CMake
> that gets installed may be too old. That means that now you have to
> remove the version of CMake you just installed and download/build CMake
> from the current source. Most of our users/developers will be VERY
> reluctant to perform that operation. So we have a fundamental problem
> with most older Linux distributions.
>
> Second, it is not the the older linkers will not link the ooRexx code,
> it is that there is a known bug in those older versions. And again, the
> user is stuck with correcting the problem with a procedure they will be
> VERY uncomfortable with and that is not portable between RPM and DEB
> distributions (and it could be worse than that in some cases).
>
> We always want the user to have the option of building ooRexx from
> source. But if the build procedure is too hard then the user will just
> not choose ooRexx at all. That is one thing we really do not want.
>
> David Ashley
I agree. One of the reasons many of us are using Rexx in the first
place is that we either do not have the time or find the c-ish languages and
tools too difficult to learn to work with.
I have learned to do basic installs of source packages in Linux, but
I often struggle when glitches come up because I don't really understand
how the underlying tools work, or how to diagnose their messages.
Leslie
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Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.
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