[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Attention Ubuntu Users

[Jason Stephenson]

Hi,

I was going to save this message for after I had everything working,  
but I think a little advance notice is in order.

I am working on getting OpenSRF and Evergreen working on Ubuntu 12.04  
(Precise Pangolin). I'm working from a virtual machine installed with  
the alpha1 iso.

Presently, OpenSRF installs and works with only minimal changes to  
src/extras/Makefile.install. You can get these changes from  
git://git.evergreen-ils.org/working/OpenSRF.git. They are in the  
collab/dyrcona/precise_pangolin branch.

As I begin working on Evergreen, I see that  
Open-ILS/src/extras/Makefile.install is a bit of a mess when it comes  
to Ubuntu targets. The generic-ubuntu target, for instance is not  
actually a generic target. It does things that only certain Ubuntu  
releases need in addition to the actually generic bits.

I will be rewriting the Ubuntu targets rather heavily. As a result, I  
suggest that we not attempt to backport installation support for  
Ubuntu 12.04 to any previous release of Evergreen (2.0 or 2.1). This  
should strictly be for 2.2+.

Also, anyone who'd be willing to test these changes on 12.04 and/or  
10.04 would be most welcome.

Cheers,
Jason Stephenson