From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix compiling on CentOS 7. Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:51:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87y43f4u1d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1kvpazv.fsf@gnu.org> <20160827065756.kblwxq3gmg63eug2@venom> <87wpj2a9m9.fsf@gmail.com> <87lgziy4qn.fsf@gnu.org> <871t18zm9x.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8fwd47o.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59509) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beM2n-0005Hw-Nv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:52:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beM2j-0005rt-JF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:52:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a8fwd47o.fsf@gnu.org> (Roel Janssen's message of "Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:32:43 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Roel Janssen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost Hi Roel, Roel Janssen skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: [...] >> Use of %D% was discussed here: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00641.html >> >> In general, I=E2=80=99m in favor of using the latest build tools availab= le (the >> autotools), because I think it=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99t cost us much, I agree. What about this: you revert the %D% patch (with a comment somewhere explaining which Automake version we=E2=80=99re 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=E2=80=99.