On 02/14/2015 01:27 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > It seems Fedora-21 has packages that are tool old, and I had very poor > luck trying to build coccinelle, ocaml and all the other dependencies > from source. > > So, if there is a distribution that just works, please let me know. > > My goal is to generate backports builds based on my own modified > 3.17 and 3.19 kernels. > > Thanks, > Ben > Hi Ben, I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and it ships with coccinelle 1.0.0~rc21, Debian testing also has a recent enough version and here [0] it says that Fedora 22 will have a recent enough version. Isn't it possible to install a library from a more recent fedora version on your fedora 21? I do not know what features from 1.0.0~rc21 are used have you tried to remove the check for that version any try it with version 1.0.0-rc20 which is in fedora 21? Hauke [0]: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/coccinelle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html