Yes, README.rhel3 is out of date. It referes to scripts that are no longer
there. It was usefull to me when doing a build on rh3 though, because the
other READMEs didn't mention make 3.8 which I had to upgrade to. README-dist
should probably mention make 3.8 perhaps in a "How to Build on RH3 "
section.

The other thing wrong with the build instructions is that README-dist is not
included in the source distribution and README-dev is. In fact, you need to
read both in order to do a build and figure out how the instructions in both
these files need to be merged together. Might be better just to have a
single set of instructions in one file, with an optional section at the
begining decribing steps to be taken to build from a checkout and then
common steps to build from a source distribution. If this sounds like a good
idea, I volunteer to submit a patch for it while it is still fresh in my
mind.

Rupert

On 2/6/07, Alan Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:26 +0000, Gordon Sim wrote:
> Rupert Smith wrote:
> > What version of apr does the C++ build use? In README-dist it claims
> > 1.2.2but in
> > README.rhel3 it claims 1.2.7. I guess either will do, but seems
sensible to
> > have a consistent version. I used 1.2.7.
>
> Can't answer the question authoritatively I'm afraid. I also use 1.2.7.
>
> The README.rhel3 was initially created prior to the autoconf based build
>   and perhaps should no longer be there at all.

There hasn't been any attempt to identify the earliest versions that
qpid can work with, so the versions mentioned in the READMEs are usually
just whatever was on the persons machine at the time they wrote the
README. It may well be the case that older versions work (definitely is
for some libs.)

I didn't do the rhel3 README so I don't know if there's a particular
reason it mentions a higher version, but choosing the higher version in
case of doubt is a good plan.

Cheers,
Alan.


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