Re: minimal required version of (optional) tools

2012-07-02 Thread Greg Banks
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012, at 12:07 AM, Дилян Палаузов wrote: Hello, is it possible to define in doc/install-compile.html the minimum versions of the tools, a developer needs in order to re-generate all source files need for the compilation of cyrus-imapd? The needed tools are autoconf,

Re: minimal required version of (optional) tools

2012-07-02 Thread Greg Banks
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: And the makefiles we ship with release tarballs better bloody work everywhere or the panda will be sad. Good point. Once we get the dist: target sorted out in the new build system, we should set up a Jenkins job which builds a dist

Re: minimal required version of (optional) tools

2012-07-02 Thread Дилян Палаузов
Hello, Speaking of which...Dilyan, what is the status of the dist: target? The only problem I am aware of is that make distclean does not clean the files generated by perl, and make cannot create /xversion.h, as there is no v2.5 tag and the distance v2.5..HEAD cannot be measured (and

Re: minimal required version of (optional) tools

2012-07-02 Thread Дилян Палаузов
Hello, to my opinion there are two things: 1. What do people cloning from git need in order to build the package 2. What tools versions do developers need, when they change a e.g. lex file. About people cloning from git, if we want to make their life easier, we can version-manage the