On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:31:32AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Eric Blake on 2/22/2010 5:01 PM:
Borrow ideas from gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap, in order to factor the specifics of libvirt into bootstrap.conf, while allowing future upgrades of bootstrap to happen with less effort.
* bootstrap (gnulib_tool): Update invocation to be closer to gnulib's version. Move libvirt specifics... * bootstrap.conf: ...into new file. ... +# Build prerequisites +buildreq="\ +autoconf 2.59 +automake 1.9.6 +autopoint - +gettext - +git 1.6.4 +gzip - +libtool - +perl 5.5 +rsync - +tar -
I don't have a RHEL 5 installation handy; are all of these prerequisites reasonable, or is git 1.6.4 a bit strong of a pre-req? If the latter, then I can further patch gnulib's bootstrap to fall back gracefully to a use of the older 'git clone --reference' instead of 'git submodule update --init --reference'. Are there any other tools that we should be adding into the prereq list, now that gnulib's bootstrap does a good job of aborting early if a development tool is insufficient for building from a git snapshot?
The automake/conf versions are fine. The only missing one is GIT, whcih is not in RHEL5 at all, but has GIT 1.5.5 in EPEL Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|