On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:13:59PM -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > ----- Original Message ----- > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 08:58:42AM -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 03:20:26PM +0000, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > This is the latest gettext release, which is not even 1 year old, is > > > > > > this the only one which is going to work? Or is it possible to relax > > > > > > this version chekc? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It's quite a mess to downgrade gettext or find the minimum required > > > > > version. RHEL7 has 0.19.8.1 already. I suppose it should work with > > > > > earlier > > > > > 0.19 releases, perhaps even older.. > > > > > > > > RHEL7.x is using 0.18, and has been doing that for a few point releases. > > > > RHEL7.4 will apparently have gettext 0.19, but that's not released yet.. > > > > Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has 0.19, Ubuntu 14.04 had 0.18. Debian > > > > stable/oldstable are both on 0.19. > > > > However, I was able to build spice-gtk git master on an up to date RHEL > > > > 7.3 after changing the required gettext version to 0.18, so I'd just > > > > lower the requirement. > > > > > > > > > > ACK feel free to push the change if you tested it. > > > > Building with AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18]) works, except that this > > triggers some autotools warnings about the use of a deprecated > > AM_PROG_MKDIR_P macro, which then aborts as we are using > > AM_INIT_AUTOMATKE([-Werror]). Did not have time to dig more into it yet. > > > > How do you reproduce it? I have no such error on f26, and my rhel7 is already 0.19.8.1 git clean -dfx before running autogen.sh. I suspect your rhel7 is a 7.4 development version, not a released version. > > > I'd just revert this patch as what is meant as a build system cleanup > > prevents building from git on platforms which are fine otherwise. > > They can still build from releases if they don't modify build-sys. If > they do, it's fair to also change gettext version, or revert this > patch. > > The question is do we want/need to target those old distros for developpers? old? RHEL/CentOS 7.3 are the latest releases at the moment. You suggest complicating build on these distros, but for not much gain. Christophe
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