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Re: [trinity-devel] Bugs, bugs, bugs

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:18:16 -0800 (PST)
What exactly breaks? Is this possibly a distro related issue?

Darrell


--- On Sat, 3/5/11, Ilya Chernykh <neptunia@...> wrote:

> From: Ilya Chernykh <neptunia@...>
> Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] Bugs, bugs, bugs
> To: trinity-devel@...
> Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 6:01 AM
> On Saturday 05 March 2011 07:06:56
> Timothy Pearson wrote:
> 
> >
> > As I mentioned on the list today, we have a major
> problem already.
> > Trinity 3.5.12 with Automake just plain *will* *not*
> *build* on modern
> > systems, so we are losing a lot of potential help for
> the bugs every day
> > that CMake is unfinished.  Very few people will
> purposefully downgrade
> > (and break) their entire build system just to fix a
> Trinity bug or two.
> > Also we cannot release something that is known not to
> build on 90% of
> > current Linux distributions.  The problem was far
> more pervasive than I
> > originally thought, so I had no choice but to block on
> CMake and bump
> > its priority to critical.
> >
> > It's unpleasant I know, but I don't see any other way
> to do this.
> >
> 
> But KDE 3.5.10 builds well for OpenSUSE 11.4. Is that
> automake issue only
> Trinity-specific?