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Month: March 2011

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

From: Ilya Chernykh <neptunia@...>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 15:01:09 +0300
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?