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Re: pre-Athena 10 Athena release refresh?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jun 27 10:33:45 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:33:01 -0400
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Unfortunately, you can't mix stock Red Hat GNOME packages built
into /usr with Athena GNOME packages built into /usr/athena. Part of
the design of the Athena 10 work is to avoid getting into this situation
in the future, but obviously that doesn't help you until it goes live.
Since we'd have to do CVS imports of the GNOME libraries and get them
all to build, and then debug any resulting dotfile problems etc., I am
guessing this will be too much work to schedule--certainly too much for
the fall, so it would be for IAP at the earliest.
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 13:52 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This has been on my mind for some time- I'm writing now partly in response
> to recent news from Bill that RedHat seems to be actively maintaining RHEL4
> with regular updates.
>
> I'm finding more and more that it's difficult and in some cases
> impossible to build Athena applications from source because our
> libraries are so old, particularly glibc and all the gnome stuff but
> also others. In some cases I've had to recompile newer versions of
> libraries already in the release and then have to deal with missing
> symbol errors from links to the wrong version...
>
> I don't know if current RHEL4 releases update system libraries to current
> releases but if they do and there is any chance we could get this in an
> Athena patch release before Athena 10 is out it would be very helpful.
>
> If this is too major an undertaking as an interim project I can
> understand and will have to make do..
>
> Alex
