The reality is that a lot of my users still want to build on RHEL 3. Some of them even want to build on older Solaris versions for which autoconf isn't even available. I disagree that we can ask more of them than current VNC systems ask. I don't see why checking in a 'configure' file is dangerous. Many other projects do that, including our parent project (RealVNC.) RealVNC also only requires autoconf 2.1. I think that we should model our build system after RealVNC, since that is the source code base we are using.
At minimum, though, TigerVNC should be buildable on RedHat/CentOS EL 3 and later with no modifications to the O/S. This means it should work with autoconf 2.5 and automake 1.6. Those are also the versions that OS X Tiger uses. Just trust me on this-- requiring users to upgrade their O/S in order to work with our source code is going to cut our potential developer base by a factor of 10. Pierre Ossman wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:11:19 -0500 > DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > >> The build system in TigerVNC unfortunately seems to require autoconf >> 2.61 or higher and also a later version of automake than is available on >> even the latest Enterprise Linux system (CentOS 5.2.) Thus, I cannot >> build the software, nor can anyone else running Enterprise Linux. I >> would suggest checking the configure script into the SVN repository. >> The RealVNC source code does this. It will give advanced users the >> option to chance the autoconf files as they see fit but will not require >> the use of autoconf/automake for the more mundane builds of the software. >> >> > > Checking in generated files is always a slippery slope, so I'm against > this. > > But I don't see why we need a newer autoconf than what CentOS ships. > Does anyone know? That's the issue that should be fixed IMO. > > Rgds > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
