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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