We need to build ROOT for whatever version we can use. I guess as we don't
build xrootd within ROOT that is probably fine.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Peter Elmer wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:30:20AM -0700, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> > One issue here is that we cannot deploy any builds later than the
> > Workshop 6 one due to some interaction between Objectivity and the
> > Standard Library. The executibles have a 50/50 chance of starting up.
>
> Ah, Objectivity...
>
> This shouldn't matter for BaBar, though, as xrootd clearly doesn't
> have that dependence and the choice of compilers for BaBar releases
> is dealt with independently from the default compiler on the machines
> by SoftRelTools/SiteConfig, no?
>
> I think this means that there shouldn't be any issue, even if we
> request that the default compiler on some or all machines at SLAC is
> moved forward. (If worse comes to worse, just "io", i.e. Andy's machine,
> could be moved to the new compiler. But worse shouldn't come to worse...)
>
> Pete
>
> > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Peter Elmer wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Derek and I talked on Friday about the migration to autotools. The main
> > > outstanding issue (with libtool) would be solved by dropping support
> > > for building xrootd with Workshop6 and Forte7 on Solaris. Is there anybody
> > > out there who builds xrootd themselves with Forte7 on Solaris rather than
> > > using one of the binary downloads?
> > >
> > > [Andy, I see you still have Forte7 as the default compiler on your machine
> > > at SLAC, but I'm guessing that this is just because BaBar constrained
> > > this to be the compiler installation on the Sol9 machines. Is that
> > > correct? (Anybody know which compiler version shipped with Sol9? In any case
> > > the BaBar SRT overrides the default compiler version and actually uses the
> > > Studio9 installation from afs in the latest releases.]
> > >
> > > I _think_ SLAC and In2p3 were the main sites which had solaris and I
> > > think that both of them use the binary downloads. ROOT appears to
> > > support "CC5.5", which must be XXXX8 (where XXXX8 is whatever name Sun
> > > chose between Forte7 and Studio9, how tedious Sun is...). Derek thought
> > > that there should be no issues with XXXX8, but was going to verify this.
> > >
> > > This said, if nobody sees any urgent reason to keep support for building
> > > xrootd with Workshop6 and Forte7, I would propose that we will do the following:
> > >
> > > o Since nobody has reported big problems with xrootd 20050920-0008,
> > > I can declare that a "production" build (the last one supporting
> > > Workshop6 and Forte7, effectively) (Wilko?)
> > >
> > > o Derek and I can do the autotools migration on top of this coming
> > > week and produce another version completely equivalent (for the
> > > existing xrootd code, plus an optional module for the authorization
> > > for Alice) to 20050920-0008 up to the autotools changes (and no Workshop6
> > > or Forte7 support). This would also be the starting point for the next
> > > round of development.
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Pete
>
>
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