Hi -
nathans mentioned on IRC a configure/build failure on RHEL4 of the
fche/prefix branch, from which he backported the gcc
-fstack-protector-all / -fpie / etc. security-related patch (commit
ba49d527).
I reproduced the build failure on a rhel4 vm. It appears to be due to
a too-old autoconf version there. However, a ../configure file
subsituted from a more recent fedora version, the rhel4 configure &
build completed successfully.
I suspect this could be a cause for reevaluating the policy that
.../configure is excluded from the git sources, and is required to be
regenerated during build time. Some FOSS projects dogmatically
exclude generated content from their source code repositories. Others
don't mind the bit of git clutter, if it makes developers' lives
easier. PCP may wish to try the latter.
(On the fche/prefix branch only, there is also a later build failure,
due to an excessively old perl Ext::MakeMaker probably not
understanding INSTALL_BASE properly; will look into that.)
- FChE
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