Hi Pete,
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.
regards,
Stephen.
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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