Thanks for the feedback. I built it on an FC7 machine and only had to update a few. (of course I had root so yum was not a problem).
The c++ team can better answer the other questions so I will leave it to them. Rajith On 9/3/07, Robert Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I decided to check out the M2 branch and try building the C++ from > source. The platform was RH4 x86_64. > > The good news is that overall it worked very well, almost according to > the instructions. When I am building, I am not root so I cannot use > yum to update packages therefore everything needs to be available in > non-standard locations. > > The only issues I had were: > > 1) Someone had installed an old version of boost in /usr/lib and this > hadn't been built with -fPIC and therefore didn't link. I built my own > version of boost, but its libraries had the compiler name at the end > e.g. libboost_signals-gcc34.a. I therefore had to change the link > lines to get it to link. I wasn't sure how to do this properly so I > just hacked it in the Makefiles. > > Is there either a better way of building boost so it doesn't have > these suffixes or a better way of configuring the libraries to link? > > 2) The build needed help2man installed. Unfortunately when I tried to > install that, it needed some perl module (Locale::gettext) and I had > no idea how to install a perl module (and the package came with no > instructions). Again I just hacked the makefile. > > Apart from those minor issues, it built and ran fine. > > RG >
