Hi Roel, Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> Use of %D% was discussed here: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00641.html >> >> In general, I’m in favor of using the latest build tools available (the >> autotools), because I think it’s reasonable to ask developers to have >> the latest available. If needed, they can install the Guix binary >> tarball and get the latest tools from there. > > So, for CentOS 7 users you suggest that to compile GNU Guix, people need > to first install the GNU Guix binary? Is that really easier than > applying and maintaining this change? I think that we should support > the version of Automake shipped with CentOS 7. We can do that if it doesn’t cost us much, I agree. What about this: you revert the %D% patch (with a comment somewhere explaining which Automake version we’re targeting), and then merge master into core-updates and wip-python? How good of a deal is it? :-) Thanks, and apologies for making it sound like I was strongly objecting the change! Ludo’.
