: Thu Mar 25 06:22:17 2010
Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: increase default AC/AM/LT requirements
Will these versions of Auto tools work with the 1.4 branch?
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Jeff Squyres wrote:
> *** LAST CHANCE ***
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> I'm asking yet one more time because it ***WILL HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON
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Will these versions of Auto tools work with the 1.4 branch?
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Jeff Squyres wrote:
*** LAST CHANCE ***
I'm asking yet one more time because it ***WILL HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON
DEVELOPERS!***
We're past the RFC timeout and no one has objected, and I have a patch ready to
commit, but be
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 3:51 PM
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Subject: [OMPI devel] RFC: increase default AC/AM/LT requirements
*** LAST CHANCE ***
I'm asking yet one more time because it ***WILL HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT
*** LAST CHANCE ***
I'm asking yet one more time because it ***WILL HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON
DEVELOPERS!***
We're past the RFC timeout and no one has objected, and I have a patch ready to
commit, but be aware that when I do, you will need the following Auto tools
versions for developers builds
Hey Jeff,
as said I'd be in favor of updating.
This would get rid of some of the tests in autogen, speeding up things.
Regards,
Rainer
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 12:07:56 pm Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Brian and I chatted about this in person -- he doesn't have too strong of
> an opinion here.
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Brian and I chatted about this in person -- he doesn't have too strong of an
opinion here.
We checked versions shipped in RHEL:
RHEL4: AC 2.59, AM 1.9.2, LT 1.5.6
RHEL5: AC 2.59, AM 1.9.2, LT 1.5.22
Meaning: they're both really ancient.
I personally don't mind forcing developers to have more
I think our last set of minimums was based on being able to use RHEL4 out of
the box. Updating to whatever ships with RHEL5 probably makes sense, but I
think that still leaves you at a LT 1.5.x release. Being higher than that
requires new Autotools, which seems like asking for trouble.
Brian
WHAT: Bump minimum required versions of GNU autotools up to modern versions. I
suggest the following, but could be talked down a version or two:
Autoconf: 2.65
Automake: 1.11.1
Libtool: 2.2.6b
WHY: Stop carrying patches and workarounds for old versions.
WHERE: autogen.sh,
