On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Typically we know that the CVS tree builds on a range of UNIX-like
> > platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, perhaps Solaris, etc, but we do
> > not
> > have a build-farm, so we can't guarantee that it builds on all
> > platforms.
>
> ...and there are many platforms to consider (see, for example, the list
> under
>
> http://www.ethereal.com/download.html#binaries
>
> I don't know if the Written Word people would be willing to participate
> in the pre-release build process, but that might be useful.
>
> The SourceForge Compile Farm:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1
>
> might also be useful, although they don't have Slackware (which has
> occasionally been the source of build problems) or Gentoo - I don't
> know whether Mandrake is still sufficiently Red Hat-like that a Red Hat
> build should work. They also don't have RH 8 or RH 9. They have Mac
> OS X with Fink; I don't have Fink indtalled, so I could do a build to
> make sure the tarball builds without Fink. (We should test the tarball
> - there might be differences between what CVS does and what the tarball
> does.)
Given that a lot of organisations actually use Ethereal, perhaps we need
to think about requesting donations of equipment or funding for equipment
(perhaps up on sourceforge) to enable us to put together a build farm.
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
