Re: [PATCH] Fix compiling on CentOS 7.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Roel,

Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:

[...]

>> Use of %D% was discussed here:
>>
>>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00641.html
>>
>> In general, I’m in favor of using the latest build tools available (the
>> autotools), because I think it’s reasonable to ask developers to have
>> the latest available.  If needed, they can install the Guix binary
>> tarball and get the latest tools from there.
>
> So, for CentOS 7 users you suggest that to compile GNU Guix, people need
> to first install the GNU Guix binary?  Is that really easier than
> applying and maintaining this change?  I think that we should support
> the version of Automake shipped with CentOS 7.

We can do that if it doesn’t cost us much, I agree.

What about this: you revert the %D% patch (with a comment somewhere
explaining which Automake version we’re targeting), and then merge
master into core-updates and wip-python?  How good of a deal is it?  :-)

Thanks, and apologies for making it sound like I was strongly objecting
the change!

Ludo’.