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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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 > Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [log in to unmask] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/